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sploit

sploit noun: exploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software).

Noun

sploit (plural sploits)

  1. (informal) exploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software)
    • Other exploit creators were less careful, turning out garbage sploits that sometimes wouldn't work at all or would even crash a target service most of the time.2006, Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded
    • In other words, some script-kiddie blindly launching a “sploit” to a range of addresses does not exactly embody the essence of this category.2007, Thomas W. Shinder, Thorsten Behrens, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period

Forms of sploit

pluralsploits

Origin of sploit

exploit

Questions about sploit

What does sploit mean?
Sploit means exploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software).
What part of speech is sploit?
Sploit is a noun.
What is the plural of sploit?
The plural of sploit is sploits.

Words near sploit in the dictionary

  1. splodginess
  2. splodging
  3. splodgy
  4. splog
  5. splogs
  6. sploit
  7. sploits
  8. sploof
  9. sploofs
  10. splooge
  11. splooged

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