EPISODE · Feb 11, 2022 · 2 MIN
Listen: Apple Pays Hacker Record Amount
from IEN Radio · host Eric Sorensen
While hackers have been described in numerous ways, they’re not always terrorists, thieves, criminals or heartless bastards, as one colleague refers to them.For example, there’s Ryan Pickren. He’s a cybersecurity Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who was recently paid over $100,000 by Apple after discovering and reporting a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to gain access to cameras and web browsers on Mac PCs.According to Pickren, and as reported by Digital Trends, the amount is the highest reward Apple has ever doled out to a hacker.
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While hackers have been described in numerous ways, they’re not always terrorists, thieves, criminals or heartless bastards, as one colleague refers to them. For example, there’s Ryan Pickren. He’s a cybersecurity Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who was recently paid over $100,000 by Apple after discovering and reporting a vulnerability that allows unauthorized users to gain access to cameras and web browsers on Mac PCs. According to Pickren, and as reported by Digital Trends, the amount is the...
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