What’s a zero-day and why they’re scary

Chad Underwood
3 min readApr 19, 2022

Reconsider not updating your technology

This past week, Apple released an update to patch 2 zero-day exploits.

This is a good time to explain zero-day exploits and vulnerabilities. Zero-days are dangerous.

There are 3 types of zero-days

  • Vulnerability
  • Exploit
  • Attack
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Chad Underwood

American writer sharing experiences in life, writing, technology, and content creation.