How of safe is iOS, the system operating in the iPhone and iPad? We could resort to the number of vulnerabilities that come to light, but an Apple security engineer has indicated that it is difficult to be based on objective statistics. To surprise of many, the employee of the signature of the Apple has pointed that an of them ways of rating what so easy or difficult is hack your software is can measure in some way by the price that is fixed in the “market black” at the time of find problems of security.
The exponential growth in sales of smartphones has led to crackers and people linked to the business of software vulnerabilities have focused their sights on mobile platforms. Google, for its high market share, is one of the objectives of Star, but also Apple by its weight on the market. Despite what might seem at first, business generated around the so-called crackers is followed closely by companies, or at least so said it Ivan Krstić, a Chief Engineer from Apple within the security and software architecture of the company section.
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The price of those hacks for iOS as measured
The information has emerged in the course of a lecture by the multinational which explained the philosophy of the firm in what iOS security concerns. In this scenario, Ivan Krstić had moment of explain that is complicated measure the degree of impenetrability of the software of an iPhone based on the statistics. Instead, the Chief Engineer pointed out that Apple closely follows the market generated around the hacks for iPhone.
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What explains this? Mainly Krstić wants to say that Apple makes a follow-up of the price that acquire the works of experts in security computer, hackers and crackers at the time of find problems of security and the method that allow hack them Idevices. But Ivan Krstić goes further since it has wanted to leave some data, including those affecting its most direct competition.
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A marked contrast of prices according to the platform
And engineer has qualified that while hacking a device with Android or Windows can cost from a few tens of thousands of dollars to the case more extreme than constancy, about $100,000 has been, in the case of iPhone there is evidence of much higher costs, rising between 500,000 and a million dollars. In fact, recently is knew that the FBI came to pay around 1.3 million of dollars by hack the iPhone 5 c of a terrorist to find information about the case in hands of the Department American.
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This information was supplemented by Krstić with others information as the made of that the platform of Apple not had registered virus and malware in general large scale from the birth of your smartphone. Also, leaves out the contrast between the policy to improve the security of software platforms. And it is that while other companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook offer rewards for discovering security vulnerabilities, Apple does not have these programs.
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