‘Hack into’ iOS 10 and earn US$1.5 billion – CNET in Spanish

The security of iOS 10 is so robust that the platform Zerodium to find vulnerabilities in operating systems, increased the amount that will be the hacker that you find a way not documented to penetrate the mobile operating system of Apple.

On his Twitter account, Zerodium said that this figure is now US$ 1.5 million for the hacker or a researcher of computer security that can find a point of access to the operating system. The award above was of US$ 500,000 by a vulnerability in iOS.

The amount to pay for to locate a vulnerability in iOS 10 is the highest price that Zerodium are paying for. According to their site, to win the US$ 1.5 million, the vulnerability has to be related to the possibility of jailbreak to the iOS device remotely.

Zerodium also pays for hack other operating systems and platforms. If you are a bug on OS X, Windows or Linux, the platform pays US$ 30,000; by hack Android is paid US$ 200,000 and the hack must also be related to the jailbreak.

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why the increase? Chaouki Bekrar, the founder of Zerodium, said the site Ars Technica that the amount is related to the difficulty of finding a vulnerability, and “we know that iOS 10-and Android-7 are much more difficult to hack than previous versions”.

This practice exercised by Zerodium is not something new, unique, and also not oblivious to the companies own software. As well mentioned Ars, Apple, Google –and more– pay developers who localize bugs in its operating systems; Apple pays a maximum of US$ 250,000, and Google pays US$ 38,000.