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Apple hands hackers secret iPhones in a bid to boost security; to offer Apple Mac bug bounty
Later this week, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Apple is to announce plans to give security researchers special iPhones…
1Password raises top bug bounty reward to $100,000
AgileBits, the company behind popular password manager 1Password…
Apple calls in top iOS and Mac hackers for secret bug bounty bash
A 19-year-old who was the first to jailbreak an iPhone 7. A former teenage prodigy turned world-renowned iOS hacker…
New $500,000 iOS bug bounty beats Apple’s best offer
A security firm is offering up to $500,000 for information on zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS…
Apple’s new bug bounty program offers some of the highest rewards in history
Over the past five years, most major tech companies have instituted bug bounty programs…
Security firm puts $1 million bug bounty on iOS 9
Apple’s iOS is the most secure mobile operating system in the world…
Apple offers record bounty, up to $1 million, to researchers who find iOS security flaws; adds macOS to program
Apple is offering cyber security researchers up to $1 million to detect flaws in iPhones, the largest reward offered by a company…
Researcher gives Apple details of macOS Keychain security flaw despite lack of macOS bug bounties
A German teenager who discovered a macOS Keychain security flaw last month has now shared the details with Apple…
Apple to compensate 14-year-old who discovered the Group FaceTime eavesdrop bug
Apple has said it will compensate the teenager who first found a security bug in Group FaceTime…
Apple likely to pay reward to 14-year-old boy who found Group FaceTime eavesdropping bug
Grant Thompson, the 14-year-old who found Apple’s FaceTime flaw, may get a bounty…
Google hacker asks Tim Cook to donate $2.45 million in unpaid iOS bug bounties
Apple’s iPhone is one of the most — if not the most — secure consumer device on the planet…
Microsoft dangles $250,000 bounty to catch Windows Conficker worm author
I’m a PC. And I’ve just been pwned. Again…
Creator of iCloud hacker tool: I would have warned Apple if they properly rewarded researchers
A bug bounty program might have saved Apple a lot of pain…
Researcher breaches Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, and others with installer hack
A security researcher found a method to hack Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Netflix, and more than 30 other companies using an open-source…
Apple loses copyright lawsuit against Corellium
A U.S. federal judge Tuesday dismissed Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit against cybersecurity startup Corellium …
Security researchers hacked Apple for 3 months: Here’s what they found
Between the period of July 6th to October 6th a group of security researchers worked together and hacked Apple. Here’s what they found…
Apple lawsuit scares security researchers away from using Corellium
Some security researchers say they’re too scared to buy, use, or even talk about the controversial iPhone emulation software Corellium, whose makers…
Apple fights U.S. government intervention in Corellium copyright lawsuit
According to recently unsealed court documents, Apple is fighting a DOJ intervention in its copyright suit against cybersecurity startup Corellium …
Apple paid hacker $75,000 to hijack iPhone and Mac cameras
Ethical hacker Ryan Pickren found seven (7!) zero-day vulnerabilities that allowed him to hijack iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac cameras…
Jeff Bezos’ hacked iPhone had Apple’s vaunted security, and that may have helped its alleged hackers
A security report last week alleged that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received a WhatsApp message laden with code that secretly hacked…
Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualizer Corellium
Apple has expanded a lawsuit against an iOS virtualization company, claiming that its actions facilitate jailbreaking and violate the DMCA..
iOS emulation company Corellium sued by Apple claims using iOS code in their product is legal
On Monday, Corellium, the startup that was sued by Apple for alleged copyright infringement in August, filed its response to the lawsuit…
Security changes coming in macOS Catalina: what’s changed
Apple laid out its plans for the changes in macOS security coming in macOS 10.15 Catalina at WWDC in June. Since then, ten beta releases of Catalina have passed under the bridge, and quite a bit has changed…
Apple seeks to shut down Corellium’s unauthorized ‘perfect replicas’ of iOS
Apple has accused Corellium of illegally selling unauthorized virtual copies of iOS under the guise of helping discover security flaws…
The tricky shenanigans behind a stealthy Apple Keychain attack
In early February, an 18-year-old German security researcher named Linus Henze demonstrated a macOS attack that would allow a malicious application to grab passwords from Apple’s protected keychain…
Security researcher reveals macOS exploit to access Keychain passwords, refuses to share with Apple (plus: how to secure your Keychain)
Security researcher Linuz Henze has shared a video demonstration of a macOS Mojave exploit to access passwords stored in the Keychain…
Apple offers up to $200,000 for hackers to find flaws in its products
Apple is offering hackers up to $200,000 to find security loopholes in its products…
CanSecWest’s $10,000 ‘Hack a Mac’ challenge relaxes barriers, finds exploitable hole in Safari
After two Apple MacBook Pros survived the first day of CanSecWest’s ‘PWN to OWN’ contest…
CanSecWest sweetens ‘Hack a Mac’ contest pot to $10,000
The prize in the hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference…
Apple begins offering special ‘dev-fused’ iPhones to security researchers
Last year at the Black Hat security conference, Apple’s head of security Ivan Krstic said the company would give trusted researchers a special iPhone …
Amazon sells tens of millions of Alexa devices worldwide in record holiday season
mazon celebrated its biggest holiday season with customers all around the world…
Can we please get this straight, Apple does not avoid U.S. corporate tax
Not even by the definitions of the groups campaigning to make corporates pay more in tax…
French navy fighter planes grounded by Windows worm; Mac-based naval systems unaffected
French navy fighter planes were grounded by Windows PC worm in the middle of January…
Security consultant: ‘This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit’
At the recent ShmooCon hacking conference, one security researcher found out the hard way that such venues can be hostile…
Attempting to protect Windows PCs from viruses, worms while Mac users surf the Net with impunity
How safe is your computer? You may not know it, but here’s a group of malicious, devious people out there who get their kicks wreaking…
F-Secure recommends Windows users go back to text-only computing
What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability? Turns out this is not really a bug, it’s just bad design…
Microsoft Windows’ Zero-Day WMF flaw threats widespread; Macintosh unaffected
Microsoft really has improved the security of its code over the last few years. The fact that every now and then a bug like the new WMF bug…
Why does Windows still suck and why isn’t everyone on a Mac?
Are you using a PC? You probably have spyware. The McAfee site claims a whopping 91 percent of PCs are infected. As every Windows…
