{"id":392260,"date":"2017-08-29T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/28\/pwn2own-mobile-targets-iphone-7\/"},"modified":"2017-08-29T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:08:07","slug":"mobile-pwn2own-contest-offering-up-to-100000-reward-for-ios-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/mobile-pwn2own-contest-offering-up-to-100000-reward-for-ios-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Pwn2Own Contest Offering Up to $100,000 Reward for iOS Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro today announced<\/a> its sixth annual Mobile Pwn2Own competition<\/a> will be held at this year’s PacSec security conference<\/a> in Tokyo on Wednesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 2.<\/p>\n

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The competition is part of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative<\/a>, a program for rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities to companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, and Huawei.<\/p>\n

This year, targeted devices include the iPhone 7, Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google’s Pixel, and Huawei’s Mate 9 Pro, each of which will be running the latest version of iOS or Android respectively with up-to-date security fixes.<\/p>\n

Trend Micro is making more than $500,000 available to be won, with the cash prizes available varying by type of exploit. Mobile Safari exploits, for example, are worth up to $40,000, while an SMS-based vulnerability could net $60,000.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the standard categories and prizes, there are add-on bonuses of between $20,000 and $50,000 for executing code with kernel privileges and having a smartphone operating system’s payload persist after a reboot.<\/p>\n

Apple representatives have attended Pwn2Own competitions in the past, with all vulnerabilities made aware to them. Apple will have 90 days to produce patches for any iOS-related bugs before they are disclosed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, at the 10th anniversary Pwn2Own competition, security researchers uncovered macOS Sierra vulnerabilities<\/a>, including a Safari exploit which allowed them to scroll a message on a MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro today announced its sixth annual Mobile Pwn2Own competition will be held at this year’s PacSec security conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 2. The competition is part of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, a program for rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities to companies like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":392261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-392260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}