Apple Offers up to $200,000 in Bug Bounty Program

ronjor · Aug 5, 2016

By Eduard Kovacs on August 05, 2016

Black Hat USA 2016 – Apple announced on Thursday its intention to launch a bug bounty program that gives a select group of researchers the opportunity to earn up to $200,000 for finding vulnerabilities in the company’s products.
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At the beginning, Apple struggled to woo researchers and convince them to report high-value bugs. For the researchers, the main issue was that the bugs they discovered were too valuable to report to Apple, despite rewards as high as $200,000.

But two years later, some researchers are finally reporting vulnerabilities to Apple, and the company has begun to award some researchers with bounties, Motherboard has learned.

“I haven’t been paid this year because I’m still waiting for last year payments,” the researcher told me. “But yes, for those previous bugs they gave me CVE [a standardized code to identify vulnerabilities]. And I got confirmation that they were eligible for a bounty, with confirmation of the amount.”

“There’s support for it philosophically,” [...] there have been “a few payouts.”
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