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Title    Bounty for Hacking Apple's iOS 10: $1.5 Million
Date    Saturday October 01 2016, @03:12AM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the boba-fett-gonna-be-rich dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/01/0148242

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Zerodium is offering up to $1.5 million for an exploit against iPhones and iPads running the latest version of iOS 10, or up to $200,000 for an exploit against Android 7:

Last year, Zerodium offered $1 million for iOS exploits, up to a total of $3 million. It dropped the price to $500,000 after receiving and paying for three qualifying submissions. On Thursday, Zerodium founder Chaouki Bekrar said the higher prices are a response to improvements the software makers—Apple and Google in particular—have devised that make their wares considerably harder to compromise.

"Prices are directly linked to the difficulty of making a full chain of exploits, and we know that iOS 10 and Android 7 are both much harder to exploit than their previous versions," he told Ars. Asked why a string of iOS exploits commanded 7.5 times the price of a comparable one for Android he said: "That means that iOS 10 chain exploits are either 7.5 x harder than Android or the demand for iOS exploits is 7.5 x higher. The reality is a mix of both."


Original Submission

Links

  1. "offering up to $1.5 million for an exploit" - http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/1-5-million-bounty-for-iphone-exploits-is-sure-to-bolster-supply-of-0days/
  2. "offered $1 million for iOS exploits" - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/security-firm-pledges-1-million-bounty-for-ios-jailbreak-exploits/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16145

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