A security bod scored a $100,500 bug bounty from Apple after discovering a vulnerability in Safari on macOS that could have been exploited by a malicious website to potentially access victims’ logged-in online accounts – and even their webcams.
Ryan Pickren, last seen on The Register after scooping $75k from Cupertino’s coffers for finding an earlier webcam-snooping flaw, said the universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) bug in Safari could have been abused by a webpage to hijack a web account the user is logged into, which would be bad. It was also possible to activate the webcam.
