Apple will offer rewards up to 180,000 euros who find bug – critical security flaws in its products. The apple giant joins so the dozens of companies that already pay to those who detect flaws in the products they offer. According to Reuters, the plan of iPhones and iPads manufacturer, fou revealed yesterday at a conference on cybersecurity in Las Vegas, in the United States. the program, which paid the largest amount to date offered by companies in similar initiatives, will initially be limited to about two dozen people that Apple will invite to help identify bug of difficult detection security in five specific categories. “detectors” were chosen from the group of experts who previously helped Apple to identify bug , but had not been rewarded for this work, the company said. the most lucrative category, offering rewards up to 180 thousand euros, it is related to the detection of bug in the program that prevents the release / download applications not authorized by Apple when the mobile OS brand is operated in the equipment. – to connect the iPhone for example similar Rewards are currently offered by dozens of companies, including aT &. T, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Yahoo Microsoft, which distributed some 1.3 million euros in prizes to security researchers since launched its program three years ago, also offers rewards for identifying very specific types of bug . Facebook, for example, has an open program that offers rewards for a wide range of vulnerabilities. The most famous social network in the world has paid more than 3.6 million in the last five years. In March, he even paid 8,976 euros to a boy of 10 years in Finland, who found a way to delete the comments from Instagram user accounts.
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