Jakarta, Indonesia Sentinel — Apple has announced it will pay up to $1 million to anyone who discovers vulnerabilities that could compromise the security of its new AI-based cloud system, the “Private Cloud Compute” server. The tech giant has rolled out a comprehensive Security Bounty program aimed at ensuring the integrity of its cloud-based AI platform.
In its security blog post on October 24, Apple outlined the rewards for identifying and exploiting weaknesses within its Private Cloud Compute server. Apple would pay up to the maximum $1 million bounty to anyone who reports exploits on the new server, which could potentially allow hackers to run malicious code remotely. Additionally, anyone could receive up to $250,000 for disclosing exploits that can extract sensitive user information or the prompts that customers submit to the company’s private cloud.
The company also indicated that it would reward up to $150,000 for exploits that could access sensitive user data from privileged network positions. Apple state it will also “consider any significant security issues” beyond the publicized categories for the Apple Security Bounty program.
“We will evaluate each report based on the quality of evidence presented, the exploitability of the vulnerability, and its potential impact on users,” Apple stated.
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This bounty program expansion marks Apple’s latest effort to strengthen its devices and cloud systems against potential threats by incentivizing private disclosures from ethical hackers and security researchers.
Private Cloud Compute, designed as an extension of Apple’s on-device AI models known as Apple Intelligence, will support high-performance AI tasks while prioritizing user privacy.
“We believe Private Cloud Compute is the most advanced security architecture ever applied to large-scale AI cloud computing,” Apple said in a statement. “We look forward to collaborating with the research community to build trust in the system and make it more secure and private over time.”
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