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📅 April 3, 2014

New iOS 7 Bug Allows Anyone To Disable Find My iPhone and Bypass Activation Lock [video]

New iOS 7 Bug Allows Anyone To Disable Find My iPhone and Bypass Activation Lock

With iOS 7, Apple requires Find My iPhone to be disabled in order to delete an iCloud account or restore a device. To disable Find My iPhone, you need to first input the password of the Apple ID associated with that iCloud account. This way, if your iOS device gets stolen, the thief will not be able ( easily ) to remove the account and avoid being tracked via the Find My iPhone website. Unfortunately a new iOS 7 bug allows you to bypass this security measures.

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📅 November 6, 2013

Knock: Unlock Your Mac By Knocking On Your iPhone [video]

Starting today, all iPhone and Mac users can say goodbye to unlocking their computers by typing a password.

Starting today, all iPhone and Mac users can say goodbye to unlocking their computers by typing a password. Introducing Knock – an app that turns your iPhone into an incredibly secure password for your Mac.

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📅 November 6, 2013

How Is Apple Handling Law Enforcement Information Requests

Apple has published a report on Government Information Requests.

On Tuesday, Apple has published a report on Government Information Requests. The report, include a table for ‘account information requests’ and another one for ‘device information requests’ Apple has received from law enforcement agencies from January 1 – June 30, 2013.

We believe that our customers have a right to understand how their personal information is handled, and we consider it our responsibility to provide them with the best privacy protections available.

The most common account requests involve robberies and other crimes or requests from law enforcement officers searching for missing persons or children, finding a kidnapping victim, or hoping to prevent a suicide,

You can read the report here…

📅 October 30, 2013

New Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack iOS Apps’ Web Requests Over WiFi [video]

Be careful which WiFi hotspots you use — Skycure has just revealed a web-based exploit that lets attackers hijack an iOS device on the same network through its mobile apps.

Be careful which WiFi hotspots you use — Skycure has just revealed a web-based exploit that lets attackers hijack an iOS device on the same network through its mobile apps. The technique intercepts some apps’ attempts to cache a web status message, redirecting the request to a hostile server; after that, an intruder can stealthily inject malware from any location.

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📅 September 21, 2013

iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones [video]

After a first bug was revealed in the iOS 7 lokscreen, a new bug was discovered that allows anyone to make calls from a locked iPhone, including international calls and calls to premium numbers.

After a first bug was revealed in the iOS 7 lokscreen, a new bug was discovered that allows anyone to make calls from a locked iPhone, including international calls and calls to premium numbers.

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📅 July 23, 2013

Canary: The First Smart Home Security Device for Everyone [video]

Canary is a single device that contains an HD video camera and multiple sensors that track everything from motion, temperature and air quality to vibration, sound, and activity to help keep you, your family and your home safe.

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📅 February 14, 2013

iOS 6.1 Security Flaw Allows Anyone To Bypass The iPhone’s Password Lock [video]

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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📅 June 22, 2012

The Jailbreak Dream Team Presents Corona Untethered Jailbreak [video]

In this video, the team presents a chain of multiple exploits to accomplish sandbox breakout, kernel unsigned code injection and execution that result in a fully-featured and untethered jailbreak.

GreenPois0n Absinthe was built upon pod2g’s Corona untether jailbreak to create the first public jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on for the 5.0.1 firmware. In this paper, the team presents a chain of multiple exploits to accomplish sandbox breakout, kernel unsigned code injection and execution that result in a fully-featured and untethered jailbreak.
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📅 June 6, 2012

iOS Hacker’s Handbook

Six skilled authors Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, Stefan Esser ( aka i0n1c ), Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf-Phillip Weinmann and MuscleNerd as tech editor have put together a new iOS book entitled iOS Hacker’s Handbook: Arm Yourself With The Tools Needed To Identify, Understand And Foil iOS Attacks

Six skilled authors Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, Stefan Esser ( aka i0n1c ), Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf-Phillip Weinmann and MuscleNerd as tech editor have put together a new iOS book entitled iOS Hacker’s Handbook: Arm Yourself With The Tools Needed To Identify, Understand And Foil iOS Attacks

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📅 February 29, 2012

Webkit Vulnerability Could Be A Massive Security Flaw

This time its the turn of the mobile browsing tools in not just iOS, but also Android and the BlackBerry Playbook OS too.

It was only earlier today in which we bought to you the discovery of another security flaw in iOS. This time its the turn of the mobile browsing tools in not just iOS, but also Android and the BlackBerry Playbook OS too. In fact any OS currently utilising the Webkit framework is vulnerable to the flaw.

Security firm CrowdStrike will be revealing the details of the vulnerability at the RSA conference on Wednesday. The issue is that a WebKit exploit could allow the remote execution of code on infected systems, and that infection can come from simply clicking a link on a web page. CrowdStrike claims that it has already managed to adapt some existing Android malware to be delivered in this manner.

To me this sounds like a perfect oppurtunity for one of the many iPhone hackers to get to work on introducing a payload of their own to the iOS devices that we have all come to love, ready for the next update just incase this isn’t patched.

But maybe that’s just me.