Earlier this week, there was a rumor that Apple was preparing changes to its bug bounty program. Apple has just confirmed these changes at the Black Hat conference.
Apple announced that this program has been extended toall its platforms, including macOS and iCloud. From this fall it will beopen to all IT security experts, whereas before this was limited to a certain number of researchers selected by Apple.
Apple increases the amount of rewards to up to1 million dollars, compared to $200k previously.
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This should also help prevent these experts from reselling these flaws on the black market, for prices that exceeded the old rewards from Apple's bug bounty program.
As part of the new “iOS Security Research Device” program, Apple will, starting next year, offer trusted experts special iPhones where many security functions are disabled.
These iPhones make it easier for computer security experts to find iOS vulnerabilities, instead of using a consumer iPhone that is locked down to the maximum.
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