Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Black hat security company increases bounty to $1.5M as iOS 10 ‘much harder to exploit’  (Read 413 times)
HCK
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 79425



« on: October 01, 2016, 04:05:20 pm »

Black hat security company increases bounty to $1.5M as iOS 10 ‘much harder to exploit’

<div class="feat-image"></div><p class="p1">
<p class="p1">Black hat security company Zerodium – which seeks to find vulnerabilities in iOS and Android to sell to corporate and government clients – has increased its maximum bounty for zero-day <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/ios-10/" target="_blank">iOS 10[/url] exploits to $1.5M. It previously <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/09/22/xcodeghost-malware-still-present/" target="_blank">offered $1M[/url] for iOS 9 vulnerabilities.</p>
<p class="p1">A zero-day vulnerability is one not yet known to the developer, so companies have zero days to prepare for exploits. The company’s founder told <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/1-5-million-bounty-for-iphone-exploits-is-sure-to-bolster-supply-of-0days/" target="_blank">Arstechnica[/url] that the increased reward reflected the improved security in the latest version of iOS. He also explained why the company pays far more for iOS vulnerabilities than Android ones …</p>
<p class="p1"> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/30/zerodium-ios-exploit-bounty-1-5m/#more-448497" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
Filed under: <a href='https://9to5mac.com/category/apple/'>Apple[/url]  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/9to5mac.wordpress.com/448497/" />[/url] <img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=448497&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=448497&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare">
<img src="[url]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=c7gHeQS8TNw:LPTeBzfD2Rc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img>[/url]
</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/c7gHeQS8TNw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Source: Black hat security company increases bounty to $1.5M as iOS 10 ‘much harder to exploit’
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to: