Researchers unveiled zero-day vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox during hacking challenges. Chrome vulnerabilities were submitted by a teenage researcher identified as “PinkiePie” On Friday, HP TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) closed out its “Pwn2Own” hacking contest. The two events paid out $210,000 in prize money, a record at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. On Wednesday, Google paid $60,000 to Sergey Glazunov, a frequent recipient of bounties paid by Google.”]
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