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0-day

Used to describe a software security vulnerability that has just been exploited or discovered, often before the software developers can formally announce or create a fix (thus giving them "zero days" to preemptively address the issue). It was a 0-day attack—the developers had no idea that their program could be hacked in that way. Please tell me that our software is well-protected against zero-day exploits. Because it was a 0-day attack, it's going to take time for us to get the site back up and running again.

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His face tingled and he felt dizzy, as if he had stopped in at the Starkfield saloon on a zero day for a drink.

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"Zero day" refers to the fact that such exploits are unknown to the developers of the affected software, and thus they have had no time to develop patches to fix it.

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