The Apple company is currently fighting to keep the world away from exploits and vulnerabilities that allow the exploitation of its operating system and implicitly the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that contains a variety of user data, those from Cupertino succeeding so far to do their job successfully.
Last month, Ivan Krstić, head of Apple's security and software architecture division, spoke at an annual company conference about what he and implicitly the management team think about all the vulnerabilities and exploits that exist at the moment girl in the whole world.
According to Krstić, the fact that vulnerabilities for iOS are sold with amounts reaching up to 1 million dollars is a clear proof of the fact that the team does a very good job in securing the operating system, he said, however, that some of the amounts reported by to the press would be exaggerated.
Even so, Krstić claims that iOS security is the result of a decade of work that Apple's engineers have put in without ceasing, and this should give users the confidence that they are using very good products that will keep their data safe. safety, no matter who would like to access them.
"As probably most of you know, there is a black market for software vulnerabilities, and once in a while some of the prices on the black market become known. Usually these prices are tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes $100,000. Take that with a grain of salt, but it's a fascinating number to think about. What you're seeing now is the result of a decade of our best work in protecting our users."
The reality is that Apple has managed to secure iOS so well that it requires the use of several separate exploits to gain administrator access to the operating system and implicitly to data, and these can cost several hundred thousand dollars , if the hackers who own them would like to sell them.
iOS has become more and more secure in recent years, and this has slowed down the release of jailbreak solutions, Krstić and his team are working hard so that vulnerabilities and implicitly jailbreak solutions do not reach the general public so easily. and to any government agency or IT security company.
