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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