19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra (comex) joins Apple

19 years old iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra comex joins Apple 19 years old iOS hacker Nicholas Allegra, better known online as comex, has taken up an internship position at Apple, the company whose devices he has helped jailbreak for the past several years. Comex is most well known for building t...

Apple Fixes Jailbreak PDF Bug With iOS 4.3.4

Apple has pushed out iOS 4.3.4 to fix a vulnerability in the iPhone operating system that affects the way the device handles PDF files. That PDF bug is the same one that was used by the Jailbreakme.com site to enable users to jailbreak their iPhones. Apple said last week that it would patch the P...

Apple Zaps JailbreakMe Bugs in Record Time

Less than two weeks after exploits for a pair of serious security vulnerabilities were fitted into an automated JailbreakMe.com exploit, Apple has rushed out a patch to block the jailbreaking of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. The iOS 3.2.2 for iPad and iOS 4.0.2 iPhone and iPod Touch update...

Apple Readies Patch for Jailbreakme.com Vulnerability

USA Today’s Byron Acohido is reporting that Apple plans to rush out a patch for the drive-by download flaw that allows jailbreaking if an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device simply surfs to a web site. “The patch is completed, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said in an interview. But Kerris said o...

Apple заблокировала сайт Jailbreakme.com

Для компании Apple появление сайта Jailbreakme.com, позволяющего в два счета обходить защиту устройств на iOS, стало полной неожиданностью. В настоящее время она латает уязвимость в приложении PDF и обещает выпустить безопасное обновление в скором времени. После запуска Jailbreakme.com в Сети...

New Safari Bug Being Used to Jailbreak iPhones

A Web site set up to help iPhone users jailbreak their devices is using a flaw in the way that the iPhone handles PDF files to escape the phone’s sandbox security function and enable users to load applications that aren’t in Apple’s official App Store. The same flaw could easily be used to instal...