Enigma To limit the impact of zero-day vulnerabilities, Google security researcher Maddie Stone would like those developing software fixes to stop delivering shoddy patches.
In a presentation at USENIX's Enigma 2021 virtual conference on Tuesday, Stone offered an overview of the zero-day exploits detected in 2020. A zero-day, she explained for attendees outside the infosec community, refers to an exploit targeting a previously unidentified vulnerability.
Zero-day flaws are a problem because they may be exploited for long periods of time before they're detected and dealt with. There were 24 of them in 2020, four more than in 2019, Stone said.
"Looking at them all together as a group, the number that stuck out the most to me was that six out of ..
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