Apple giving out HACKED iPhones?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,272 words · ~6 min read
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james you might have seen tech news but you've never seen it like this hit it
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tech news so how would you like to make a cool million bucks without having to
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throw money down the drain on lottery tickets sounds fun or risk apple is
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offering you just that with its new bug bounty program i don't think it's quite
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that but it's designed to entice folks to find flaws with iphone security
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although apple had previously offered prizes of two hundred thousand dollars
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to invited researchers only the company is now opening up its top reward to
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anyone who can fully control an iphone via hacking but if you are an actual
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cyber security professional apple will be offering modified iphones that will
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be a little easier to break into that's always nice with the hope that serious
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bugs are discovered before they get rolled out to the masses apple's cash
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rewards have been responsible for uncovering more than four dozen serious
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issues since 2016 so if you think you have the hacking chops go give it a try
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a million dollars can buy a lot of galaxy s10s which you should definitely
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be getting instead of the note 10. if Linus hot take
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it's not really hot it's a warm lukewarm take while we're on the subject
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of hacking iphones one security researcher has discovered and developed
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a sneaky new way to break into idevices
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i don't know we're gonna find out by packing modified hardware into a
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standard looking lightning cable researcher mike grover was able to
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establish a wireless connection with a connected iphone and subsequently
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subsequently and subsequently gain full control over it although grover stated
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that a direct connection would work from up to 300 feet away the cable could also
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be set up to connect to a wireless network allowing the hacker remote
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access from anywhere although at this point the fake cable is a prototype it
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does demonstrate a sneaky new way of compromising your own security which you
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shouldn't do grover wants to sell the cables to use for legitimate security
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purposes but you may want to think twice about no-name brand cables in the future
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as important as they used to be samsung has plans to put a still eye-popping
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with xiaomi called the iso cell bright hmx will feature a 108 megapixel
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many pixels is unsurprisingly physically larger that's how reality works which
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will both improve overall picture quality as well as help low light
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from widespread adoption no word yet on exactly when we'll see it hit the market
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though if it finds a way into the upcoming me mix 4 you might be able to
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get your hands on it around christmas time and snap plenty of high-res photos
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come on if you're the proud owner of a canon dslr you might want to check for
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security updates like now
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do it junior as a flaw has been discovered that enables attacks through
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the camera's wi-fi connection the issue is centered around the picture transfer
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protocol which isn't secured making it easy for hackers to gain access to an
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inserted sd card and install ransomware
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a wedding you might have a lot more to worry about in that case than a lost
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to get in her way fortnite streamer ninja is unhappy over
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an attack on his now dormant twitch channel after recently switching over to
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microsoft's mixer yesterday morning someone accessed his channel and
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uploaded a two hour porn stream and ninja is also frustrated that twitch has
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been using the channel to promote other streams ninja has received an apology
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though i wonder how many unwitting 12 year olds have gotten in trouble with
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their parents who haven't got a clue what twitches no they all moved to mixer
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i'm not going to comment on that although the future of autonomous vehicles holds a great deal of promise
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tesla hit a stopped tow truck after which the tesla exploded due to damage
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setting a trend for other apps to follow suit though if you want my opinion
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john saying that i i've never used
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country will soon be rolling out its own electronic currency it's not clear
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exactly when it'll be available to chinese consumers but their government
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would probably want to debut an easy to control digital currency free of foreign
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technology sooner rather than later i don't think anything here in canada is
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free of foreign tech except maybe our syrup refineries is that a thing
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dude we have blackberries you know bbm meme oh you mean the phone
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i thought you're talking about the fruit like blackberry syrup all the above you
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ever had blackberry syrup on pancakes
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