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| Apple offers a vulnerability discovery program to everyone and rewards of up to a million dollars |
Apple announced today that the financial reward program for financial rewards applies to all security researchers. It rewards anyone who finds a serious hole in their system of up to a million dollars or more in the process.
The US tech giant launched a rewards program for its vulnerability seekers in 2016. However, this program is only available in the calling system and is limited to iOS, its mobile device operator. But now it is available to everyone and the company has expanded the software to include other systems, including iCloud, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and tvOS. Watchos.
Apple said security researchers should provide a detailed description of the vulnerability and provide sufficient details for the company to reproduce the vulnerability. This also indicates that those who find a dangerous proliferation affect multiple business platforms, especially if the difference affects the company's latest products, they will get higher financial rewards.
A security researcher who detects a security vulnerability in the Apple system beta gets a 50% bonus for the bonus value. Researchers who are able to bypass the lock screen and gain unauthorized access to iCloud services receive a reward of between $ 25,000 and $ 100,000. Those who can extract sensitive data from locked devices will get a bonus of between $ 100,000 and $ 250,000. The main prize is given to anyone who can launch an attack and take control of the device without the user having to do anything.
It is believed that the timing of the Apple Extended Rewards program may be partly an answer to several system issues (iOS 13). Last November, Bloomberg announced that before the launch of iOS 14 in 2020, Apple changed the way it tests software to improve consistency with other companies such as Google and Microsoft.