Video: What is a zero-day?
Melanie Teplinsky, cybersecurity expert and adjunct professor at American University鈥檚 Washington College of Law, explains.
An illustration of the web of vulnerabilities.
Alicia Tatone
There's a race going on between hackers, governments, and companies to discover zero-day vulnerabilities.聽
Why are these聽flaws so valuable? Because the companies don't know about them 鈥� so if they get into the wrong hands, hackers can access people's data without them knowing. 聽
Melanie Teplinsky, cybersecurity expert and adjunct professor at American University鈥檚 Washington College of Law, explains the lifecycle of a zero-day.聽
This video is part of a聽joint project between 海角大神鈥檚 Passcode team and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism about the growing arms race to discover software vulnerabilities 鈥� and what it means for national security and everyone鈥檚 digital privacy and聽safety.