exploit

(security)

A security hole or an instance of taking advantage of a security hole.

"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole" -- Mike Emke.

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If this is true, this may be a case of hackerly zero-deriving verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a disk.

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exploit

An unethical or illegal attack against a computer or network that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the operating system or application. See zero-day exploit, proof-of-concept exploit and exploit industry.

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Sources told the Cyprus News Agency that if a second exploitable field has been located, after the discovery of "Aphrodite", this will trigger positive developments on three levels: hydrocarbon resources in the Cypriot EEZ are larger than initially thought, the presence of the world's largest hydrocarbon company in Cyprus is rendered permanent, while Italy's ENI and France's Total exploration projects, which includes five test drills, takes on a new dynamic.

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The Company has demonstrated to others prospective investors that Thar coal was exploitable and that investment was worth making.

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This book is an analysis of race and class by examining a growing crisis in America: the existence of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable, exploitable and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and social practice.

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By using such hashtags, users are able to fool the system, making for a security loophole that's easily exploitable.

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Skybox arms security leaders with a powerful set of integrated security solutions that give unprecedented visibility of the attack surface and key Indicators of Exposure (IOEs) such as exploitable attack vectors, hot spots of vulnerabilities, network security misconfigurations and non-compliant firewalls.

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He said the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is currently enjoying its economic invigoration climax and that it is time for business youths to take the opportunity of investment, noting that expenditures in all sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would reach SR2 trillion over the coming five years with the investment exploitable opportunities to amount to 100 or more in addition to unification of efforts of more than 30 bodies supportive to SAGIA unified investment plan.

SAGIA vows support for local business entrepreneurs 2 Riyadh

The closure of Sure Start Centres and Libraries will only make future generations less employable and therefore less exploitable.

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Beijing (Reuters) - China discovered almost 27 billion cubic meters (bcm) of exploitable shale gas reserves in 2014, state media said on Thursday, citing the Ministry of Land and Resources.

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This is a concession to explore this territory, in which investigations will be made in order to find out if the area has exploitable resources in sufficient quantity that would justify exploiting it later on."

Mining concession