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The Pros And Cons of Jailbreaking Your Phone
Does jailbreaking your mobile phone make it less secure? Kaspersky Lab Director of Global Research and Analysis Costin Raiu offers his thoughts in this exclusive video Q&A with Threatpost Editor Ryan Naraine. Jailbreaking your iPhone was, at one time, an activity limited to serious hardware hacke...
Manufacturers, Carriers Look to Defend Devices Against Attackers and Users
As mobile phones have gradually morphed into complete computing devices in the last few years with the advent of the iPhone and Android-based phones, mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers have been working to create new protection mechanisms to stop attacks against the increasingly...
iPhone Jailbreaking, Greenpois0n and SHAtter Trojans
By Costin Raiu When iPhone jailbreaking was declared legal earlier this year, Apple fans from all around the world rejoiced. Sites such as Jailbreakme.com, which allowed for the simple and straightforward jailbreaking of older iPhones, became very popular. Indeed, the keyword here is “older”...
FreeType: Multiple stack overflows by processing CFF opcodes
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the cffdecoderparsecharstrings function in the CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter in cff/cffgload.c in FreeType before 2.4.2, as used in Apple iOS before 4.0.2 on the iPhone and iPod touch and before 3.2.2 on the iPad, allow remote attackers to execute...
Changes to DMCA Protect Jailbreaking, Some Security Research
A new change to the much-maligned Digital Millennium Copyright Act free users who jailbreak their iPhones and other mobile handsets from worries about prosecution under the provisions of the DMCA that prevented circumvention of protection technologies. A separate change announced Monday also give...
e-Sentinel Security Advisory - Ref: Session Hijacking iPhone Facebook Application ver 3.1.2
Tested on iPhone firmware version 3.1.2 Facebook App version 3.1.2 Impact It is possible to usurp valid session IDs in order to gain unauthorised access to facebook profiles. At greatest risk are those handset that have been jailbroken. Description Using known vulnerabilities and exploits to gain...