Apple Pays $100,000 Bounty to Student Who Successfully Hijacks a Mac’s Camera

Apple Pays $100,000 Bounty to Student Who Successfully Hijacks a Mac’s Camera

2 years ago
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https://wccftech.com/apple-pays-100k-bounty-for-hacking-mac-camera/

A cyber security student successfully managed to hack a Mac’s camera, and for his efforts, he was awarded $100,000 in bounty from Apple. Want to know how he did it? Then continue reading on.

Ryan Pickren is a Ph.D. student in cyber security at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, in 2019, he found some vulnerabilities that he successfully exploited, which enabled him to switch on an iPhone camera and its microphones without requiring the user to activate privacy permissions. For his efforts, he was paid a bug bounty of $75,000 from Apple.

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