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Want a Million Dollars? You Just Need to Hack the iPhone or iPad

Want a Million Dollars? You Just Need to Hack the iPhone or iPad 82l5s

By Manish Singh | Updated: 23 September 2015 09:47 IST

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Know a way to hack an iPhone or an iPad? You can win $1 million. Notorious zero-day exploits merchant firm Zerodium has announced the bounty program for security enthusiasts and hackers who can find vulnerabilities and exploits affecting iOS 9-powered iPhone or iPad. d242o

Zerodium, founded by Chaouki Bekrar who is best known for founding French security firm Vupen, announced on Monday that any person who can find an exploit that allows an attacker to remotely install an arbitrary app with full access on Apple's iOS 9-powered devices such as the iPad Pro, the iPhone 5s, among others, will be awarded with a million dollars (roughly Rs. 6.5 crore). The attack needs to take place either via a Web browser, or any other app reachable via the Web browser, or incoming text or multimedia message. The company says that it will offer multiple awards, though $3 million (roughly Rs. 19.6 crore) might be the maximum it has to offer as of now. The company has set October 31 as the deadline for the program.

"Due to the increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in place, iOS 9 Bug Bounty comes into play."

Bug bounty isn't a new thing. In fact, tech companies including HackingTeam hack.

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