While antivirus clients have gained protection against ZIP bombs, other software has not, such as web browsers or vulnerability scanners like Nikto, SQLMap, or others.

ZIP files have been a handy way to compress information for easier transport and storage for decades. But the realities of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy longevity made relying on multi-disk zip ...

This is a small zip file that “explodes” into a very large file. A compiler bomb is a small piece of C code that will blow up a compiler — in this case, specifically, gcc.

For example, in the article below, there is a ZIP bomb that becomes 281TB when unzipping a 10MB ZIP file. 'Non-recursive ZIP bomb' expands a 10MB file to 281TB ...