A security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos
A security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact). We hear that this bug has been fixed in the newly released iOS 6.1.1 ( iPhone 4S only ).
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French users discovered that when you click on the Admob advertising, it initiates a call in the background without any possibility of being able to hang up.
Remember when I told you to lock every sensitive app you got on your iPhone? Well, it seems that you’re not safe even where you’re the only one who uses the phone.A group of French users, did some tests on some in-app Admob banners, which if accidentally clicked could make calls to numbers with exorbitant rates.
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A similar problem, but independent from the one just described, had been found long ago by some people, when they tried to import pictures taken with your iPhone, you saw an error return from iPhoto that sent as a “missing image “.
New bug discovered in iPhone OS 3.0 which affects the pictures taken with the iPhone camera that are not visible in CameraRoll. The problem is found only in the case of those images that are automatically named with the initials IMG_10000 or higher. The bug, confirmed by many users in an open thread on Apple Discussions, makes the images invisible, but the images are saved and can be imported on the PC or Mac .
A similar problem, but independent from the one just described, had been found long ago by some people, when they tried to import pictures taken with your iPhone, you saw an error return from iPhoto that sent as a “missing image “.
Hopefully this bugs will be patched in the next iPhone OS.
After scooping and asking around, i found out there is not certain why this is happening, but it seems to be related to the BigBoss’s repository . So , the only way to be able to load Cydia again, w/o having to re-jailbreak, is to delete the repository and re-add it.
It all started last week when Cydia crashed and i couldnt open it anymore. Pretty busy this days , with all sorts of stuff ( FSMdotCOM related and non-related ) , so the easiest thing for me was just to re-jailbreak , and get over it.
Since i didnt see any fuss about it on the www , i thought it was just me, so i decided to just let it go. But in the last couple of days, i received some emails from you guys reporting the same problem. So if there is a problem, there’s always a solution.
Through a bug in the SMS in fact, the device may be attacked and then run a program without user intervention. In the case of Jailbroken devices, this program would take the Administrator privileges.
Do you know who Charlie Miller is? Well, Charlie is a hacker who, during the Pwn2Own event, took full control of a Mac in just 2 seconds using a security flaw in Safari. Impressed? Oh well…
Charlie moved his attention on the iPhone and in particular to a security problem in the management of SMS that allows hackers to send malicious code without user intervention.
Through a bug in the SMS in fact, the device may be attacked and then run a program without user intervention. In the case of Jailbroken devices, this program would take the Administrator privileges.
Mr Miller has also held (during the conference Syscan Singapore) that Apple is already at work in search of a remedy. Basically, despite the limited number of characters available in 1 SMS you can send a small program in binary form through multiple consecutive messages.
Finally, Miller argues that the Jailbreak eliminates about 80% of the protection system Apple, for which an iPhone is even more vulnerable to this problem.
DevTeam Explains Why They Wont Release iPhone 3Gs Jailbreak Yet… the reason is pretty much self explanatory but Spock said it best: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…”
You all know that GeoHotz finally jailbreaked iPhone 3Gs, but the dev team is delaying the official release until the new FW is released by Apple. The reasons are obvious but, as promised this morning, the DevTeam has written a new article on the official blog, which explains some important details about the iPhone 3Gs Jailbreak.
Pretty much the iPhone 3Gs Jailbreak is ready , and they can release the tools anytime, but by doing that, they will allow Apple to check out the tools, and implement protection in the new iPhone OS update 3.0.1. And if they do that, all the work needs to be redone ( more or less , but still…. ).
The 3Gs hardware allows Apple to block the installation of .ipsw files without digital signature and it is precisely for this reason that saving the certificate through the ECID is a must.
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