Apple granted a cybersecurity student a bonus of $ 100,500 (around 75,54,000 rupees) for discovering a vulnerability in the webcams of mac mac.The student, Ryan Pickren, spoke of this vulnerability in a blog post, indicating that hackers can access Mac's webcams by exploiting the problems related to iCloud sharing and Safari 15.These vulnerabilities are now corrected by Apple, said Mr..Pickren in his blog post.The bonus of $ 100,500 would be the biggest payment of the Bogue bonus of the Cupertino giant.

Pickren had also discovered a vulnerability of the camera of an iPhone and a Mac.He said that the problem was not corrected by Apple, a malicious website could launch an attack using these flaws.In his blog post, M.Pickren explains that vulnerability will give the attacker full access to all web accounts, from iCloud to Paypal, as well as authorization to use the microphone, camera and screen sharing on mac mac.According to him, this same hacking would allow a hacker to access the entire file system of a device by exploiting the "Webarchive" files of Safari.

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"An amazing feature of these files is that they specify the web origin in which the content must be rendered.This is a great trick to allow Safari to rebuild the context of the registered website, but as the authors of Metasplit pointed out in 2013, if an attacker can modify this file in a way or aAnother, he can actually make a UXSS… [Universal Cross-Site Scripting] on purpose, ”said Mr..Pickren in his blog post.

Apple has not yet commented on vulnerability, but the company has paid Pickren a sum of $ 100,500 from its Bugs premium program.The Apple bug bonuse program can officially assign up to $ 1 million (around 7,51,00,000 rupees) to those who find bugs in the company's software or gadgets.Apple publishes a list of maximum sums by category of security problems reports.