Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Opened iPhones to Jailbreaks

Apple has released an emergency patch fixing a kernel vulnerability – for the second time – after it was accidentally unpatched in iOS 12.4. The flaw CVE-2019-8605, a use-after-free issue existing in the kernel, could enable a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with system privileges...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Zerodium Raises Zero-Day Payout Ceiling to $2M

Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Monday that it is upping its payouts for full, working exploits across its entire program. It’s now paying $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks, $1 million for WhatsApp/iMessage/SMS/MMS remote code-execution RCE and a half-million for Google Chrome RCEs. T...