We have just passed half of this year 2017, and we have already seen how Security experts were right when they talked about this year: Malware keeps growing. Like it or not, malware at Apple is also a reality and the Cupertino-based company is aware of it. With this, many possibilities of taking advantage of a weakness in our operating system to access our private information.
However, according to a new report from Motherboard, The rewards program created by Apple, which has been available for almost a year, to solve and avoid security bugs on iOS and macOS platforms, is not having the expected success. And apparently they know what the reason for it is.
Apparently Apple offers an amount totally unrelated to the current cybersecurity market. Digital security research experts prefer not to help Apple with its bugs and security failures due to the low prices they offer for each aid received. Therefore, they focus on finding and solving problems in other operating systems, such as Windows or Android.
According to different specialists in the sector, finding a bug or security flaw in the Apple ecosystem is "too valuable" to sell to Apple "for so little money." Therefore, the solution is to sell it to third parties, who apparently pay much more than the technology giant itself.
Do not forget that Apple presented its bug bounty program last August 2016, at the Black Hat Conference, the well-known annual global cybersecurity event. Apple's rewards reach up to $ 200.000, depending on how vulnerable the bug detected is. A ridiculous figure compared to what their peer software makers pay.
In front of the ceiling set by Apple for the most significant bugs found, contrast the "paltry $ 25.000" that a specialist can charge in the event of a minor flaw discovered or difficult to reproduce.