Apple apologizes for slow reply to iOS 15 zero-days
Looks more like a face-saving exercise, researchers say
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Applehas apparently apologized to thecybersecurityresearcher whorecently sharedthree iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, after being let down by the lethargy of Apple’s bug bounty initiative.
According to the researcher, who has been identified as Denis Tokarev byMotherboard, the three vulnerabilities have made their way into the recently releasediOS 15update as well, even though he had reported them to Apple months before.
After Tokarev published details about the vulnerabilities, along with proof-of-concept exploits, Apple has reached out to assure him that they are still in their ToDo list.
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“We saw your blog post regarding this issue and your other reports. We apologize for the delay in responding to you,” an Apple employee wrote in an email Tokarev shared withMotherboard.
Avoiding bad press
In their email Apple claims that they are still investigating the issues and how best to address them, before issuing a boilerplate greeting thanking Tokarev for reporting them.
“While I’m glad Apple appears to be taking this particular situation more seriously now, it comes across as more of a reaction to bad press than anything else,” security researcher Nicholas Ptacek toldMotherboard.
Tokarev has admitted that the vulnerabilities aren’t exactly critical, and were only shared to highlight the frustrations of working with the bug bounty program of such a valuable company.
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Apple’s apparent red tapism was further underlined by the fact that while it took months for the company to even acknowledge the issues, another developerclaimed to have fixedthem all, barely a day after Tokarev shared them publicly.
ViaMotherboard
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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