They say it makes more sense to hold on to discoveries for additional research or sell them on the gray market to companies like Zerodium and Exodus that will buy them for closer to $500,000 or even $1 million. 10 program participants said that they haven't submitted anything to the company yet and don't know anyone who has, because bugs in Apple software are so valuable elsewhere. It's a lot of money, some of the largest payouts from any software company, but Motherboard reports that the sums aren't tempting enough.
And stay safe out there.Īpple Bug Bounty Payouts Aren't Large Enough to Competeįor years Apple resisted offering a reward for bug disclosures, but in 2016 the company finally instituted an organized, invite-only bounty program that offered researchers $25,000 to $200,000 for vulnerabilities they discovered in MacOS and iOS. As always, click on the headlines to read the full story in each link posted. Each Saturday we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. And halfway through 2017 there have already been too many cybersecurity meltdowns to count. On the dystopian artificial intelligence beat, you probably won't be able to trust your own senses and judgement anymore, since AI is generating sophisticated forgeries. Meanwhile, North Korea demonstrated on Tuesday (US Independence Day) that it is capable of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile, bringing the reclusive nation one step closer to possessing nuclear weapons that could directly threaten the continental US or pretty much any other part of the world. So far there's no evidence that hackers have accessed the industrial control systems that actually direct physical equipment, so it's not a doomsday scenario yet, but from an anxiety perspective it's not great. Reports this week revealed that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are scrambling to defend multiple US energy companies and manufacturing plants from hackers-including a nuclear power plant in Kansas. And don't forget angst about power grid hacks. It hasn't struck yet, but if the ransomware fear doesn't get you, the phishing paranoia might. After last month's Petya/NotPetya ransomware outbreak you may be feeling like the next global attack could come at any moment.
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