Zero-day Vulnerabilities (Zero-day vulnerabilities)

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Zero-day Vulnerabilities

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Zero-day” is a term that describes a recently discovered exploit or malware for a vulnerability that attackers launch against system

all malware and exploits were a zero-day at one time or another.

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These exploits are considered zero-day before and…

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On the day that the vendor is made aware of the exploit’s existence. When I say vendor, I mean the antivirus companies, the anti-malware companies and other vulnerability database organizations and threat awareness groups.

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Zero refers to…

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the number of days since the anti-malware vendor or other organization actually discovered the threat.

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Although there are millions of lines of zero-day code waiting to be logic bombed, the…

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a valuable list of recently discovered security vulnerabilities

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Threat management and threat modeling tools like…

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Amazon Web Services GuardDuty are cutting-edge countermeasures because they rely on a consortium of groups and companies that use advanced machine learning algorithms and proprietary A.I. techniques to identify what they call their findings