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08
Jul
2011

Perhaps you’ve heard the news? JailbreakMe 3.0 went live yesterday. What’s JailbreakMe? It’s an easy way to jailbreak an Apple iOS device using a PDF (related) vulnerability. It’s done with a “drive-by” style exploit. All somebody needs to jailbreak their (newer) iPad/iPhone/iPod is to visit jailbreakme.com and to touch the free/install button. The German Federal […]

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A website that makes it child’s play for iPad and iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices raises important security concerns. The site, jailbreakme.com, exploits a PDF vulnerability to run unauthorised code on Apple customers’ iPhones and iPads, including the new iPad 2. In this way they allow users to unlock their devices, and run programs […]

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British comic actor Simon Pegg, star of movies such as “Shaun of the Dead”, “Hot Fuzz”, and most recently the alien comedy “Paul”, has claimed that his Twitter account has been hacked in order to spread malware to his 1.2 million followers. Simon Pegg normally tweets to his fans with TweetDeck or Twitterific, but the […]

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