Author: Andrada Fiscutean, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

From a scrappy contest where hackers tried to win laptops, Pwn2Own has grown into a premier event that has helped normalize bug hunting.

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Author: Andrada Fiscutean, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

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