Roughly three years ago, Apple began paying security researchers for discoveries of unknown vulnerabilities in iOS, and today, it’s responding to long-standing requests by adding macOS, watchOS, and tvOS devices to the list.
Additionally, the company is now offering a maximum reward of $1 million for the most serious security issues, providing researchers with even more incentive to report rather than horde their findings.
The news went public today at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas (via TechCrunch), where lead Apple security developer Ivan Krstić disclosed key updates to the bug bounty program.
Apple will now pay $1 million for a deadly serious exploit — a zero-click attack that enables complete, persistent control of an iPhone’s kernel with nothing more than knowledge of the device’s phone number — up from a peak of $200,000 before.
Less serious exploits will qualify for smaller amounts.
For the company, the risk of low payments has been that security researchers will instead hand their findings off to private organizations, such as Grayshift and Cellebrite, that will subsequently exploit Apple’s devices for profit.
Now Apple is taking an unprecedented step: distributing a more hacker-friendly iPhone to its favorite researchers, letting them hack the phone on "easy mode" in the interests of making it harder for everyone else.
Its iOS bug bounty will pay out up to $1.5 million for a single attack technique that a researcher discovers and shares discreetly with Apple.
At the Black Hat security conference Thursday, Ivan Krstić, Apple's head of security engineering and architecture, announced a broad revamping of the company's bug bounty program.
These devices will lack some layers of security protections so that their recipients may dig into the deeper, less examined core of the phone.
"We want to attract some of the exceptional researchers who have thus far been focusing their time on other platforms.
They'll also have debugging abilities that will allow researchers to easily scour the phone's code for flaws.
Malwarebytes for Mac is a popular and respected anti-malware tool for Mac that can help to clear a Mac of malware, ransomware, and viruses. While users can follow some simple tips to protect a Mac from viruses and trojans, and MacOS is fairly secure as-is from malware, junk ware, and adware, many Mac users often ask how they can scan their Mac for adware or for viruses.
The answers to these questions will be discussed in the article below.
How to use Dropbox on Mac computer
In order to start using this service, you need to go to Dropbox.com and create a new account.
Run this file and after performing simple actions, the program will be installed.
There is only a folder in which you can put data so that it moves to the cloud.
File-sharing can be enabled only on a website, unlike in Windows desktop Dropbox client.
Surely you, like me, have met more than once with a friend or family member who asks you why you spend so much on an Apple device like an iPhone or a Mac if for less money the competition offers “the same“.
Chances are that you are tired of answering this question over and over again, often with arguments that you also do not want to understand.
Apple is not like the rest
Although it may seem that Apple’s competition offers “the same thing”, Apple is the only company that offers hardware and software designed exclusively to work together.
More to see: Apple will Finance the Reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris
The great competition of Apple in smartphones, tablets or computers such as Samsung or Huawei use Android on their smartphones and Windows on their computers.
But the day when Mac user gets the message Your startup disk is almost full it hits very hard.
When users forget this junk, redundant data takes up most space on Mac and sooner or later Your Startup Disk is Almost Full message appears.
Using its One Click Cleaning feature you can clean system and user cache files, system and user log files, redundant parts of applications, the unneeded language of localized applications and more.
One Click Cleaning: This feature of TuneUpMyMac makes the process of performing multiple cleaning easy and saves time.
Duplicate Finder: Duplicates occupy unnecessary space and are one of the reasons for the message Mac startup disk full.
Internet Privacy: Secure your Mac by cleaning cache and cookies stored on your Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome.
