Monday, January 11, 2010

What is "Zero Day Attack?"



"Zero Day Attack"

"Takes place before the security community or software developer knows about a vulnerabilities or has been able to repair it...."


-->A Zero day attack also known as "a zero hour attack",takes advantage of computer vulnerabilities that do not currently have a solution.Typically a software company will discover a bug or problem with a piece of software after it has been released and will offer a patch another piece of software meant to fix the original issue.
If the vulnerability is not particularly dangerous,software producers may choose to hold off until multiple updates are collected and release them together as a package,Still this approach can potentially expose users to a "zero day attack".

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