When it first hit, it was a "zero-day attack, " in hacker parlance.
The bottom line is this: The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack.
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Hackers infected banner ads run by marketing firms such as Germany's Falk Esolutions, causing users who visited certain Web sites displaying Falk ads to download a Trojan horse that steals credit card numbers by exploiting yet another undetected vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (a zero-day attack, once again).
The holy grail is a Day Zero attack, preventing something which has never been seen before.
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The German interior ministry says members of the Coptic church expressed their concerns even before the New Year's Day suicide attack.
The Conservatives are using an opposition day debate to attack the government's crime record.
He also went to the store the day before the attack for two hours of training.
On Dec. 16, the day of the attack, her family gathered at their home.
They claimed they had been in Lincoln on day of the attack, planning to commit vehicle theft.
In Asia, Cathay Pacific fell by 19% on the day after the attack and Singapore Airlines by 15%.
On the day of the attack, McHugh was on foot, about 25 to 30 feet away from the bomber.
The female swan was found dead on Friday, the day after the attack.
The day following the attack, on 10 October, the Director-General issued a press release denouncing the attempted murder.
When they met on Dec. 16, the day of the attack, the two hadn't seen each other for several weeks.
Mr Curtis and Mr Holmes claim they set out towards Lincoln on the day of the attack to steal cars.
Mr Obama shot back that he had said so the day after the attack, in an appearance at the White House.
Mr. Obama said Mr. Romney should check the transcript of the president's comments from Sept. 12, the day after the attack.
Instead, the jury saw CCTV footage of a car, belonging to Curtis's brother Thomas, driving towards Lincoln on the day of the attack.
Neither Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB, nor Rashid Nurgaliev, the interior minister, made a public appearance on the day of the attack.
Mick Hogan had debriefed each of the men who had been in the field on the day of the attack, and he was angry at the Dutch.
On the day of the attack, he was escorted back to the home the couple shared in Maitland Crescent, Stirling, by police officers as he was drunk.
The day after the attack, Roger Bismuth, president of Tunisia's Jewish community, disputed the view that the scorching of Torah scrolls had anything to do with anti-Semitism.
The San Diego office, in whose area the men had been living, was, however, not informed until a day before the attack was carried out, the newspaper says.
On the day of the attack, Mr Crompton came back in to the house from his workshop and discovered his things had been put away, the jury heard.
The court heard on the day of the attack Mr Clark, a soldier based at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, had met his girlfriend Emma Aien in the city centre.
According to transcripts of Mr Obama's speech, he did say, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation", in a statement the day after the attack.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who along with the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi visited the wounded in the hospital a day after the attack, said India would "never bow down" before the rebels.
Odeh left Kenya the day before the attack, according to travel records introduced into evidence, taking a Pakistani International Airways flight that landed in Karachi just a few hours before the bombing occurred.
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