Saturday, 6 August 2016

Apple, offering large cash rewards for security bugs help in finding


Apple's, said it plans to offer a reward of up to $ 200,000 to researchers who can find critical vulnerabilities in its products, and join the dozens of companies that are already offering payments to help with the discovery of defects in their products: Las Vegas.

devices for IPhone and IPad manufacturer Reuters provided details of the plan, which includes some of the biggest rewards far provided prior to the opening on Thursday afternoon at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

The program is initially limited to twenty researchers that Apple's, will be asked to help identify hard to penetrate security bugs in five specific categories.

They are the researchers of the expert group were selected, which helped the company Apple ID insect before, but not paid for this work, the company said.            
Apple's, said that he had decided to limit the scope of the program to other companies that have been previously published Advice rewards programs.

These companies said that if they were to do it again, you will start to invite a small list of researchers to join, and then gradually open over time, according to Apple.

According to him, on security analyst Rich Mogull limit participation would save Apple's, to deal with the avalanche of error reporting "low-value".

This program can be manage from difference resources , he said.

Apple's, said that companies offer advice.

It also provides Microsoft Corp., which supplied $ 1.5 million in prize money for security researchers since the program was launched three years ago, and the benefits for the detection of very specific species of insects. It was his two biggest payment for $ 100 000 each.

Not all rewards programs as sharp as Apple, and Microsoft.

Facebook, for example, discovered a program that offers rewards for a wide range of weaknesses. And it paid more than $ 4 million over the past five years, the average salary in the last year to $ 1,780.


In March, Facebook pay $ 10,000 persons aged 10 years in Finland, he found a way to remove comments Instagram user accounts
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