Researchers may have found a way to remotely penetrate the defenses of Apple’s latest mobile OS. The money was offered in a contest run by a Washington, D.C.-based company called Zerodium. The company is in the controversial business of buying and selling software vulnerabilities. Apple’s iOS is one of the most challenging for hackers to exploit and the company has engineered strong defenses around iOS that make it hard to infect with malware. The winning team’s exploit “is still being extensively tested by Zerodium to verify and document each of the underlying vulnerabilities””]
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