Apple gave $75000 dollars to an ethical hacker and Top countries have most hackers

Apple gave $75000 dollars to an ethical hacker and Top countries have most hackers

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Apple gave $75000 to a hacker for detecting a security fault in Safari, which possibly could let hackers 

to jack into the cameras of MacBook and iPhone. A former employee of Amazon web services security named Ryan Pickren uncovered a zero-day fault in Safari. He uncovers a total of seven security errors in Safari.

Apple fixed four problems in the release of an update of version Safari 13.0.5 that gave the camera access to hackers. Another three issues were fixed in an update of version Safari 13.1 update on March 24.

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Types of Hackers

• The hackers who crack credit card passwords or frauds banking network to steal money.
• The hackers who try to hack websites or users crucial data. They do it by hitting several 

thousand hits on a website which causes server failure.

• Those hackers who are hired by nations government to collect a country sensitive data,

including military projects, secret agencies, and economy

All hackers are not bad some are also good.

Top most cyberattacks are done by these 5 countries

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• China- Around 41% of cyber attacks took place in the world are done by Chinese hackers. It is

rumoured that they are funded and supported by the government. 

The Great Firewall of China means Chinese citizens have many restrictions on surfing the internet. 

Many popular websites such as Google, Facebook, etc. are banned in China. Chinese citizens are allowed to communicate with foreigners. They need to use a VPN to use the internet. 

• USA- Over 10% of online attacks are carried out by US hackers. The most famous hackers activist group is Anonymous. 
• Russia- Russia shares only 4.3% of world traffic attacks. Some Russian hackers hacked some of the most secure computer systems.
• Turkey- Turkey holds 4.7% of cyber attacks. A hacker named Ercan Findikoglu carried simultaneous withdrawals of millions of dollars. He hacked thousands of credit and debit cards. 

Then his gang members withdrawn money from ATM all over the world using fake ATM cards. He was arrested and sentenced to 8 years of prison.

• Taiwan- The country shares 3.7% of world traffic attacks.