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The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript

by Tim Kadlec snyk.io published 2017-03-09

An interesting whitepaper was released at the 2017 NDSS Symposium discussing a large-scale attempt at determining just how vulnerable client-side JavaScript libraries are. We wanted to share some of our thoughts on the report.

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