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Mozilla Firefox is the First Pwn2own 2017 Victim to be Patched

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 20, 2017

Some vendors respond to security issues faster than others. Last week, the 10th annual Pwn2own hacking challenge was hosted by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), with multiple groups of researchers taking aim at web browsers, operating systems and virtualization technology.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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