Apple finally rewarding people for finding security flaws
Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture, Ivan Krstic, made the announcement at Black Hat. The bug bounty program will get underway in September.
It has taken Apple some time to embrace this type of initiative, which sees researchers and hackers rewarded for their discoveries and submissions of security vulnerabilities. In fact, Apple was criticised during its battle with the FBI when the latter was trying to break into an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the individuals involved in the San Bernardino shooting last December. It was believed that Apple's unwillingness to reward researchers to share information of vulnerabilities resulted in the FBI being able to find a third party to exploit a flaw.
