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Zero-Day

Submitted by ssgro on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 16:41

Computer threat that tries to exploit computer vulnerabilities unknown to the software developer. This attack exploits the developers lack of knowledge of the vulnerability and attacks before developer awareness or time to distribute a security fix to the software users.

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