U.S. Government Pays $ 250,000 for IOS buster

It's no secret that there is a huge market in terms of buying and selling of a security flaw in popular software and operating systems. In general, if hackers find a vulnerability in the software's security, they will notify the developer of the software.

Often they will be present at the security conference to present 'findings' or sometimes they participate in the competition to produce something security exploits over the 'work' they were. recently revealed news of a sale of the security hole, where the party- those who benefit most from the authorities.According to reports ZDNet , the U.S. government recently paid $ 250,000 for IOS security hole.Hackers sell a security hole for government agencies through an intermediary. These intermediaries who arrange the deal and the amount of commission earned. However, these intermediary organizations do not reveal to the public about the security holes that they 'buy' because they must still keep it a secret to get access to their target device. Selling to these organizations are safer than selling it to the mafia or other evil organizations. Forbes collects price data through multiple sources that do the 'job' is. According to one source intermediary, a security vulnerability in Apple's mobile operating system is a rare thing. According to him, the security of Apple's mobile operating system is more robust than other operating systems, like Android. IOS exploit security system is the most profitable because of the high paid, he added. While in browser security, vulnerabilities often found in Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari followed behind. However, security vulnerabilities in popular browser the hackers are even more profitable. The reason, they claimed to produce more to pay 'their work' on the popular browsers.

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