Apple is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can pull off a specific iPhone hack (AAPL)

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• As part of an expansion to its bug-bounty program, Apple says it will pay a $1 million reward to those who execute a specific iPhone hack.
• The hack is known as a zero-click full chain kernel execution attack.
• Additionally, the company says it's expanding the program to include platforms such as macOS, watchOS, and tvOS in addition to its iOS software that powers iPhones.
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Apple is making some major changes to the bug-bounty program it introduced in 2016, including the introduction of a new million-dollar reward.

The company says it will pay out $1 million to security researchers who can carry out what is known as a zero-click full chain kernel execution attack with persistence. That means anyone who can get to the core of Apple's iOS operating system and gain control of an iPhone in a way that wouldn't require any user interaction would be eligible for the payout, as Forbes and TechCrunch explain.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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