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Title: Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest
Post by: HCK on November 04, 2015, 03:00:16 pm
Winner claimed in $1 million iOS 9 hacking contest

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A team of security researchers may have found a way to <span style="line-height: 1.75em;">remotely penetrate the defenses of Apple's latest mobile OS, making them eligible for a $1 million reward.</span></p><p>
The money was offered in a contest run by a Washington, D.C.-based company called Zerodium, which is in the controversial business of buying and selling information about software vulnerabilities.</p><p>
It congratulated  (https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/661240316331069443)the winning team on Twitter Monday, though it didn't identify the researchers, which made its claim about finding a new security hole in iOS 9 impossible to verify.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3000637/security/winner-claimed-in-1-million-ios-9-hacking-contest.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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