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Tracking thoughts and feature requests for Two Scoops of Django 1.8 in the issue tracker. And the book's code examples are here.
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Definition of Zero-Day Attack #80

Closed ludw closed 9 years ago

ludw commented 9 years ago

In the box about Zero-Day Attacks in chapater 26.29.5 it says:

A Zero-Day Attack is when there is an attack or communicated threat of an attack that occurs on the first day (or hour) of a project launch or upgrade.

I think this definition is a bit wrong or at least slightly confusing.

On wikipedia they use the following definition:

A zero-day (also known as zero-hour or 0-day) is a computer threat that exposes undisclosed or unpatched computer application vulnerabilities.

audreyfeldroy commented 9 years ago

Great catch, @ludw. I agree, it's not quite correct. I rewrote it and provided a short list of good examples to help readers understand. :ship: