The hackers get the last laugh this time around. Per The Mac Observer, the jailbreak community has beat Apple to the punch with its own solution to an iOS 6.1 bug that could give someone access to your iPhone without knowing your passcode. The app, dubbed “disableEmergency”, removes the Emergency Call button from the lock […]
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It’s hard to say if it’s discouraging to see the iOS get spotted on assorted security failures or reassuring to see that security experts manage to notice these and bring them to the public’s attention. According to Forbes, Mac hacker and researcher Charlie Miller has reportedly found a way to sneak malware into the App […]
This is a bit weird but maybe it makes sense in the long run. Per Network World, less than six months after introducing it, Apple has quietly disabled its jailbreak detection API (Application Programming Interface) through the iOS 4.2 software update, according to a new report. The publication reported that the API, which was released […]
The tug-of-war between Apple and the iPhone hacker community continues as Apple has vowed to fix a flaw that allows its iOS-based device to be jailbroken via the Safari web browser. Per CNET an Apple spokesperson said, “We’re aware of this reported issue, we have already developed a fix and it will be available to […]
Mac hacker Charlie Miller, a principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators and the winner of the the CanSecWest security conference hacking contest two years straight, has detailed his latest find wherein he was able to run shellcode on an iPhone. According to Macworld UK, it was widely believed by many security researchers that it […]