Apple monitors prices for those who find vulnerabilities in the iPhone

Prizes and awards:

• Apple has offered cyber security researchers awards for their shortcomings in the iPhone, the biggest reward offered by a hacker protection company.
• This comes at a time when growing fears of governments penetrating the mobile phones of dissidents, journalists and human rights defenders are increasing.
• At the annual Internet Security Conference "Black Hat" in Las Vegas on Thursday, the company said it would open the door for all researchers, adding the Mac program and other goals, and in offering a range of rewards calling for the most important results.
• The price of one million dollars will only be available to anyone detecting a vulnerability allowing remote access to the operating system of the iPhone without any action of the phone user.

Price of the gaps:

• The previous major award from Apple was $ 200,000 for those who reported flaws that could be fixed with software updates so they would not be exposed to criminals and spies.
• Government contractors and intermediaries pay up to $ 2 million for the most effective intrusion techniques to obtain information from agencies. Private companies, including the Israeli group NSO, sell undercover tools to governments.
• "The NSO Group is developing a technology licensed to intelligence and law enforcement agencies for the sole purpose of preventing and investigating terrorism and crime," the company said in a statement. .