Las Vegas — Apple said, who criticized him in recent years due to non-payment of planners. reporting bugs in their products, said Thursday it will start offering a bonus to do so-called for technologists who company to defects on the alert.
In "Black Hat" hacking Conference, Apple announced the list of vulnerabilities that will receive great bounty, including $ 25,000 for knocking about Apple and its customers digital compartments data, $ 50,000 for errors that give hackers a way to data icloud, and $ 200 000 to deliver critical vulnerabilities in Apple-software that is located closest to the metal from the device.
Apple said that if pirates donated their bonuses to charity, will match their donation. "We want to reward people and frankly creativity it takes to search for errors in these categories," Ivan Krstić, Apple's head of security, engineering and architecture.
For six years, almost every company in Silicon Valley, hackers who delivered bugs – a term for defects that can make a product likely to hack — in their systems, with cash. Hope that the money will be an incentive to keep those defects by organized groups or spy agencies willing to pay big money to identify them.
But Apple has moved away from this practice. Instead, you might restrict someone flipped errors by putting their names on her website, a far cry from the tens of thousands of dollars, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, companies like Google and Facebook were willing to pay.
The absence of Apple's bug bounty program made headlines earlier this year when the F.B.I. said it paid more than $ 1 million hackers a backdoor in the Apple iPhone.
Annual Conference "Black Hat", now in its ninth year, the gathering place for all kinds of computer security experts, including hackers and technology industry executives and Government officials.
Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher, respectable, in a keynote speech that the industry is falling far short of expectations. Is the beginning of an onslaught of normal hacks, such as recent penetration of computers running the Democratic National Committee, to make customers think that little can be done to protect them.
"We made promises in technology, people don't believe them," said Mr Kaminsky. "Everyone seemed busy but still burn House". Mr Kaminsky argued about cybersecurity for the national institutes of health or the Manhattan project for funding research.
It is worth mentioning that a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton coincided with this year's Conference. Tickets for the fundraiser "hackers to Hillary were going anywhere from $ 100 to $ 2,700. According to the organizers, fundraisers and focused on "Cyber policy issues facing the next administration."
Security experts stressed at the Conference, echoed earlier reports that Russia was behind the hack. A number of research organizations suggesting that the D.N.C. hacked two sets of KGB in what believed campaign aimed at hurting Clinton presidential candidacy.
For six years, almost every company in Silicon Valley, hackers who delivered bugs – a term for defects that can make a product likely to hack — in their systems, with cash. Hope that the money will be an incentive to keep those defects by organized groups or spy agencies willing to pay big money to identify them.
But Apple has moved away from this practice. Instead, you might restrict someone flipped errors by putting their names on her website, a far cry from the tens of thousands of dollars, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, companies like Google and Facebook were willing to pay.
The absence of Apple's bug bounty program made headlines earlier this year when the F.B.I. said it paid more than $ 1 million hackers a backdoor in the Apple iPhone.
Annual Conference "Black Hat", now in its ninth year, the gathering place for all kinds of computer security experts, including hackers and technology industry executives and Government officials.
Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher, respectable, in a keynote speech that the industry is falling far short of expectations. Is the beginning of an onslaught of normal hacks, such as recent penetration of computers running the Democratic National Committee, to make customers think that little can be done to protect them.
"We made promises in technology, people don't believe them," said Mr Kaminsky. "Everyone seemed busy but still burn House". Mr Kaminsky argued about cybersecurity for the national institutes of health or the Manhattan project for funding research.
It is worth mentioning that a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton coincided with this year's Conference. Tickets for the fundraiser "hackers to Hillary were going anywhere from $ 100 to $ 2,700. According to the organizers, fundraisers and focused on "Cyber policy issues facing the next administration."
Security experts stressed at the Conference, echoed earlier reports that Russia was behind the hack. A number of research organizations suggesting that the D.N.C. hacked two sets of KGB in what believed campaign aimed at hurting Clinton presidential candidacy.
