Microsoft Vows to Plug IE Hole Found in Hacking Contest
Next week's Patch Tuesday will feature a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that came to light at the celebrated Pwn2Own hacking competition. full story 
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Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle’s Java to win $20,000. Vupen, a French vulnerability research and bug-selling firm that took first place at Pwn2Own last year, brought down...
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Microsoft to patch IE10 Pwn2Own bugs next week, says security expert
Microsoft today said it will ship nine security updates next week, two rated “critical, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps, and the company's anti-malware software in Windows 8 and RT. One security expert put his money on the IE update as the most important, in part because he expects Microsoft to fix the flaws revealed a month ago...
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