Reply to post: Re: "exploited" zero-day

Patch Tuesday heats up with pair of exploited zero-days squashed – plus 58 other vulns fixed

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Re: "exploited" zero-day

The term zero-day for the most part means what you think it means, unknown to anti-virus definitions for example

But there can be "in the wild" zero-day expliots, meaning they are actively being exploited, but not sufficiently protected against. They are however still zero-days, but hopefully not zero-days for long.

Hope that makes sense

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