Zerodium buys zero-day bugs from security researchers and then sells them forward to government intelligence agencies.
Adobe added isolated heap to Flash.
Isolated heap protection is a modern security technique that separates data processes inside the computers memory.
Adobe worked withGoogles Project Zero developersto develop this feature and it was implemented in the Flash Player version 18.0.0.209.
The heap isolation technique has been difficult to crack as seen from the bounty offered by Zerodium.
According to a price list published by Zerodium, the max payout for Flash zero-days is $80000.
So the $20000 increment in this latest bug bounty is a certificate of sorts for heap isolation technique.
source: www.techworm.net
