Apple employee reportedly didn’t tell Google about zero-day exploit found in Chrome

3 years ago by Mustafa Albazy to c/security

As we often report here, it’s common for tech companies to help each other improve their security systems by sharing...

As we often report here, it’s common for tech companies to help each other improve their security systems by sharing zero-day exploits found by security researchers. Google, for example, does this a lot. But recently, an Apple employee reportedly found a zero-day exploit in Google Chrome – and that bug was never reported to Apple by that person.

sciawp 22 points 3 years ago

TechCrunch’s report had access to a Discord channel where a person claiming to be the Apple employee who found the bug said “there wasn’t any real urgency” to fix the exploit immediately. The person explained that only Apple’s security research team knew about the exploit and that it’s not easily accessible in a real-world scenario.

Furthermore, the employee claimed that the exploit was reported to Google on June 5 and that the delay was due to the time it took for multiple people to sign off on the report.

Pretty misleading headline

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astral_avocado 4 points 3 years ago

My man

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