wraggster
September 22nd, 2015, 21:56
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The public perception of the black-hat hacker is of a lone person sitting in a dark room creating malware and unleashing it on the world and reaping the profits of their exploit. The reality is a bit more complicated and far more financially lucrative. Nothing shines a light on this more than the Zerodium publicity stunt (https://www.zerodium.com/ios9.html) of offering $1 million for iOS 9 zero-day exploits. Founder Chaouki Bekrar has a history of selling exploits (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/21/meet-the-hackers-who-sell-spies-the-tools-to-crack-your-pc-and-get-paid-six-figure-fees/) to the highest bidder instead of disclosing the issue to the maker of the compromised product. It flies in the face of responsible disclosure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure) of exploits by security researchers and means that anyone with enough cash will have the ammunition to ruin the digital life of anyone with an iPhone.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/22/ios9-bug-bounty-hackers/
The public perception of the black-hat hacker is of a lone person sitting in a dark room creating malware and unleashing it on the world and reaping the profits of their exploit. The reality is a bit more complicated and far more financially lucrative. Nothing shines a light on this more than the Zerodium publicity stunt (https://www.zerodium.com/ios9.html) of offering $1 million for iOS 9 zero-day exploits. Founder Chaouki Bekrar has a history of selling exploits (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/21/meet-the-hackers-who-sell-spies-the-tools-to-crack-your-pc-and-get-paid-six-figure-fees/) to the highest bidder instead of disclosing the issue to the maker of the compromised product. It flies in the face of responsible disclosure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure) of exploits by security researchers and means that anyone with enough cash will have the ammunition to ruin the digital life of anyone with an iPhone.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/22/ios9-bug-bounty-hackers/