According to foreign media reports, at the Black Hat Cyber ​​Security Conference, Apple executives said that the company will pay up to 200,000 U.S. dollars to researchers who find their software vulnerabilities (iOS systems, etc.) and hardware defects.
This is the first time that Apple has launched a bug bounty to the outside world. After Apple detected its loopholes internally. The project will start in September, but Apple currently says that the project is only open to designated and invited researchers.
Apple said that the amount of rewards corresponds to the severity of the loopholes found, such as 25,000 US dollars and 50,000 US dollars, and a maximum award of 200,000 US dollars.
Many technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo have already launched similar incentives. For example, Facebook's "Pests Rewards" program has been launched until now, Facebook has accumulated more than 4 million US dollars to the security researchers to find out the loopholes; Uber also has "insects rewards" project, the highest award of 10,000 US dollars.
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