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- How does it work? Well, almost like any other bug: it requires the victim to enter certain sites and download the malicious code that will take control of the device…
- According to Forbes, Ryan Pickren, the former Amazon Web Services security engineer, would have notified Apple how to exploit the iPhone camera in December 2019…
- Just as other large companies in the field do, Apple promotes a rewards program just for those who demonstrate their computer security. The intention is to detect vulnerabilities…
In times of coronavirus it is very difficult to stand out in the first headlines of the graphic media. However, Apple always gets a spot. With releases, rumors and even small news (positive or negative), those on the block are always there. A few weeks ago it was the new iPad Pro, currently we are waiting for a new iPhone SE? and in recent days it was learned that a “hacker” received US$75,000 from Apple for violating the iPhone’s camera.
How does it work? Well, almost like any other bug: it requires the victim to enter certain sites and download the malicious code that will take control of the device…
It is that, as do other large companies in the field, Apple promotes a rewards program just for those who expose their computer security. The intention, of course, is to detect vulnerabilities in devices and operating systems.
The news says that a hacker would have managed to break the iPhone’s camera and that for this, Apple would have paid him an interesting monetary reward. This “ethical” computer scientist would have received about 75 thousand US dollars from those in Cupertino.
According to Forbes, the computer scientist in question would be Ryan Pickren, a former security engineer for Amazon Web Services. The researcher would have found a total of seven zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s browser, Safari.
According to Forbes, Ryan Pickren, the former Amazon Web Services security engineer, would have notified Apple how to exploit the iPhone camera in December 2019…
Apparently, through three of those seven “zero-day” failures it would be possible to hijack the camera of any mobile device that has iOS in its bowels. How does it work? Well, almost like any other bug, it requires the victim to enter certain sites and download the malicious code that will take control of the device.
Amazing, 7 zero-days!
Just visiting a site — not only malicious but any ‘legit site unknowingly loading bad ads’ as well — over #Safari browser could have let remote hackers secretly access your #iPhone or macbook camera or microphone.
Read ➤ https://t.co/MHccw4kZV2#infosec pic.twitter.com/WrV33L6qYh
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) April 3, 2020
“Simply visiting a site, not just malicious, but also any ‘legitimate site unknowingly loading bad ads’, through the #Safari browser could have allowed remote hackers to secretly access your #iPhone or macbook camera or microphone .”
Just as other large companies in the field do, Apple promotes a rewards program just for those who demonstrate their computer security. The intention is to detect vulnerabilities…
According to what was exposed by said medium, the former Amazon Web Services security engineer would have notified Apple of the failure in December 2019. And the company, after verifying the “success” of the discovery, would have patched the failure and released an update to the OS. Consequently, and as already stated, Ryan Pickren would have received US$75,000 as a reward for his work.
