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    jailbreak Results

    First HomePod Jailbreak Stokes Speculation About Smart Speaker's Hacking Potential

    Friday November 20, 2020 3:29 am PST by Tim Hardwick
    The team behind the "Checkra1n" jailbreaking tool for iOS claims to have used it to successfully jailbreak Apple's HomePod, although it's unclear what that could mean for the smart...
    Read Full Article 71 comments

    Scott Forstall Encouraged Pandora to Jailbreak iPhones to Get a Head Start on Early App Store Development

    Wednesday March 3, 2021 10:29 am PST by Juli Clover
    When the iPhone first launched in 2007, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs had no plans to allow developers to create native apps for the iPhone, instead suggesting they rely on web apps. Developers...
    Read Full Article 50 comments

    Jailbreak for All iOS 13.5 Devices Close to Release, Claim Hackers

    Thursday May 21, 2020 2:01 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
    The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has announced an upcoming version of its software that can patch "every signed iOS version on every device" using a zero-day...
    Read Full Article 100 comments

    Corellium Accuses Apple of Using Lawsuit to 'Crack Down on Jailbreaking'

    Monday December 30, 2019 10:34 am PST by Juli Clover
    Apple is currently involved in a lawsuit against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS. Apple has accused Corellium of copyright infringement because Corellium creates...
    Read Full Article 254 comments

    First Jailbreak for iOS 14 Limited to Devices With A9(X) Chip and Below

    Tuesday September 22, 2020 3:42 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
    The team behind the "Checkra1n" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 0.11.0 of its software with support added for iOS 14, but only on a limited number of devices. checkra1n 0.11.0...
    Read Full Article 75 comments

    Apple Calls New Russian Smartphone Sales Legislation 'Equivalent to Jailbreaking'

    Tuesday December 3, 2019 4:05 am PST by Tim Hardwick
    Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed new legislation requiring all smartphones, computers, and smart TVs sold in the country to come pre-installed with Russian software, reports...
    Read Full Article 155 comments

    Jailbreak Tool 'unc0ver' 6.0.0 Released With iOS 14.3 Compatibility

    Sunday February 28, 2021 8:26 am PST by Frank McShan
    The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 6.0.0 of its software, which can allegedly be used to jailbreak any device running iOS 11.0 through iOS 14.3 using...
    Read Full Article 94 comments

    Jailbreak Tool 'unc0ver' 5.0 Released With iOS 13.5 Compatibility

    Sunday May 24, 2020 3:06 pm PDT by Frank McShan
    The team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 5.0.0 of its software that claims to have the ability to jailbreak "every signed iOS version on every...
    Read Full Article 182 comments

    Apple Releases iOS 12.4.1 With Jailbreak Vulnerability Fix

    Monday August 26, 2019 10:05 am PDT by Juli Clover
    Apple today released iOS 12.4.1, a minor update that comes one month after the launch of iOS 12.4.The iOS 12.4.1 update is available on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To...
    Read Full Article 64 comments

    Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak

    Monday August 19, 2019 9:25 am PDT by Juli Clover
    Apple in iOS 12.4 mistakenly unpatched a vulnerability that was fixed in the iOS 12.3 update, leading to a new jailbreak available for iOS 12.4 devices, reports Motherboard.Hackers discovered the...
    Read Full Article 96 comments

    Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.5.1 With Fixes for Recent 'unc0ver' Jailbreak Vulnerability

    Monday June 1, 2020 10:40 am PDT by Juli Clover
    Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.5.1, minor updates that come a little over a week after the release of iOS and iPadOS 13.5, major updates that brought the Exposure Notification API, FaceTime...
    Read Full Article 95 comments

    Apple Stops Signing iOS 13.5 After Releasing iOS 13.5.1 With Jailbreak Patch

    Monday June 8, 2020 3:10 pm PDT by Juli Clover
    Following the release of iOS 13.5.1 on June 1, Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.5, which means downgrading to that version of iOS is no longer possible.iOS 13.5.1 included a fix for the vulnerability...
    Read Full Article 56 comments

    Checkm8 Exploit Opens Door to Unpatchable Jailbreak on iPhone 4S Through iPhone X

    Friday September 27, 2019 7:31 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
    A security researcher who goes by "axi0mX" on Twitter today released "checkm8," which he claims is a bootrom exploit for iOS devices equipped with A5 through A11 chips, including the...
    Read Full Article 200 comments

    Two Major Cydia Repositories Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity

    Thursday November 23, 2017 9:06 am PST by Joe Rossignol
    ModMy today announced it has archived its default ModMyi repository on Cydia, which is essentially an alternative App Store for downloading apps, themes, tweaks, and other files on jailbroken iPhone,...
    Read Full Article 209 comments

    Quick Takes: Apple Watch Apps Called 'Frustrating' to Develop, iOS 11 Jailbreak With Cydia, and More

    Wednesday February 28, 2018 1:30 pm PST by Joe Rossignol
    In addition to our standalone articles covering the latest Apple news and rumors at MacRumors, this Quick Takes column provides a bite-sized recap of other headlines about Apple and its competitors...
    Read Full Article 90 comments

    Google Security Researcher Shares Details on 'tfp0' iOS 11.1.2 Exploit That Could Lead to Future Jailbreak

    Monday December 11, 2017 2:18 pm PST by Juli Clover
    Google security researcher Ian Beer, who works for the Project Zero team, last week highlighted an iOS 11.1.2 exploit called "tfp0," which he believes could be the basis for a future iOS...
    Read Full Article 31 comments

    Apple Releases iOS 9.3.4 With Important Security Fix [Update: Jailbreak Patched]

    Thursday August 4, 2016 10:03 am PDT by Juli Clover
    Apple today released an iOS 9.3.4 update for the iOS 9 operating system, just over two weeks after releasing iOS 9.3.3 and less than two months before we expect to see the public release of iOS 10,...
    Read Full Article 201 comments

    Judge Dismisses Cydia Creator's Lawsuit Against Apple For Now

    Wednesday January 5, 2022 8:33 pm PST by Joe Rossignol
    U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers today granted Apple's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the company by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for...
    Read Full Article 91 comments

    Unauthorized App Store Cydia Sues Apple for Anticompetitive Behavior

    Thursday December 10, 2020 8:50 am PST by Juli Clover
    Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app...
    Read Full Article 463 comments

    iOS 9 Untethered Jailbreak Released for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

    Wednesday October 14, 2015 5:04 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
    Chinese team Pangu today released the first untethered jailbreak for iOS 9 devices, including the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.The jailbreak tool is currently available for Windows only, but an OS X...
    Read Full Article 310 comments

    Apple's T2 Security Chip Vulnerable to Attack Via USB-C

    Tuesday October 13, 2020 8:33 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
    After it was reported last week that Apple's T2 Security Chip could be vulnerable to jailbreaking, the team behind the exploit have released an extensive report and demonstration.Apple's...
    Read Full Article 112 comments

    Apple Stops Signing iOS 13.7 After Releasing iOS 14, Downgrading No Longer Possible

    Tuesday September 22, 2020 4:15 pm PDT by Juli Clover
    Following the release of iOS 14 last Wednesday, Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.7, which means downgrading to iOS 13 after upgrading to iOS 14 is no longer possible.Apple routinely stops signing...
    Read Full Article 97 comments

    Apple Used DMCA Takedown to Temporarily Remove Tweet With iPhone Encryption Key

    Wednesday December 11, 2019 12:41 pm PST by Juli Clover
    Apple recently used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get Twitter to remove a viral tweet that featured an iPhone encryption key, provoking the ire of the security community, reports...
    Read Full Article 119 comments

    iOS 8.3 Untethered Jailbreak Released for iPhone and iPad

    Tuesday June 23, 2015 4:48 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
    Chinese team TaiG has released an iOS 8.3 untethered jailbreak tool on Windows for compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. TaiG warns that some jailbreak tweaks are not compatible with iOS...
    Read Full Article 119 comments

    Apple's T2 Chip Has Unpatchable Security Flaw, Claims Researcher [Updated]

    Tuesday October 6, 2020 2:46 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
    Intel Macs that use Apple's T2 Security Chip are vulnerable to an exploit that could allow a hacker to circumvent disk encryption, firmware passwords and the whole T2 security verification chain,...
    Read Full Article 216 comments

    Top Stories: macOS 10.15.5, New Powerbeats Pro Colors, iPhone 12 and 13 Rumors, and More

    Saturday May 30, 2020 6:02 am PDT by MacRumors Staff
    This week saw an interesting mix of news and rumors on the Apple front, led by the release of macOS 10.15.5, which brings a new battery health feature to newer Mac notebooks, while we also saw the...
    Read Full Article 12 comments

    iOS 8.1.3 Fixes Exploits Used by TaiG Jailbreak

    Tuesday January 27, 2015 2:53 pm PST by Juli Clover
    It appears that today's iOS 8.1.3 update fixes many of the exploits that were used for the iOS 8 TaiG jailbreak, which worked up until iOS 8.1.2. The earlier Pangu jailbreak was disabled with the...
    Read Full Article 79 comments

    'Pangu' Jailbreak for iOS 8.x Now Available for Mac, Compatible with Newer Apple Devices

    Sunday November 9, 2014 10:28 am PST by Richard Padilla
    The Pangu development team today updated its jailbreak for iOS 8 and 8.1, bringing full support for the Mac. The update comes a week after the program saw an update for Windows that brought an...
    Read Full Article 239 comments

    Browser-Based iOS 9.1/9.2 Jailbreak Wins $1M Bounty, Will Be Sold for Corporate and Government Use

    Monday November 2, 2015 12:21 pm PST by Juli Clover
    Earlier this month, exploit acquisition platform Zerodium debuted an iOS 9 bug bounty that would pay out up to three million dollars to hackers who managed to develop a browser-based untethered...
    Read Full Article 212 comments

    Apple Secretly Had a 'Double Agent' in the iPhone Leaker Community

    Wednesday August 18, 2021 9:53 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
    For more than a year, a member of the iPhone leaks and jailbreaking community was actually serving as a "double agent" for Apple by secretly providing the company with information about other...
    Read Full Article 149 comments
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