It’s not just media. The number of software engineers I’ve heard talk about “fixing” a “zero day” in a code dependency by updating to a patched version…
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Oisteink@feddit.nl 3 days ago
That’s not a zero-day… Really dislike media that waters down or misuse terminology
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 days ago
Well, it’s a zero day for 24 hours, right?
Oisteink@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Yepp - it was, but that day was 11. June
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t think that’s true either, based on the reporting it’s based on a bug disclosed at a hacking conference in May. No clue how this is a zero day if it’s based on a 2 month old bug reported to the vendor.
Seems more like bot standard Microsoft fucking around and waiting too long to patch before it got used.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 days ago
Iirc there was a previous attempt to patch this, it would appear a slight variation was not fixed in the patch. Might be why people are saying zero day.
Senseless@feddit.org 3 days ago
So that would make it a zero-oneandahalf-week.