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.
source
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