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Few days back, folks at Applidium had
.
Using that knowledge, hacker who goes by the Twitter handle plamoni has created a proxy server for
– Apple ‘s revolutionary voice activated personal assistant feature called Siri Proxy. He says that the idea behind the proxy server is to make it easy for developers to add functionality to Siri.
He has released the source code of the proxy server along with the instructions on how to set it up on social (more…)

iPhone hacker – Stefan Esser – better known by his Twitter handle – i0n1c, has published a presentation titled ”
” which gives a rare insight into the latest iOS jailbreak techniques. I0n1c is credited for developing the
used in jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 and iOS 4.3.2.
He had used it to make a presentation at Black Hat 2011 in Las Vegas recently.
The iPhone user land is locked down very tightly by kernel level protections. Therefore any sophisticated (more…)

Comex, the hacker behind jailbreaking tools like
, is very active on
and recently agreed to do an IAmA on the site. An IAmA is reddit speak for a Q&A session. Although he was candid all through the session, as part of his contract with Apple he didn’t answer any questions about his internship with the company.
The first few questions that greeted him were of course about whether he would continue to support the jailbreak community in the future, (more…)

has just announced that he is joining Apple as an intern.
, iPad and iPod Touch for
, which used a userland exploit to jailbreak and install 
 on an iOS device using mobile Safari. Apple had to release an
software update to patch the vulnerability.
It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also been a while and I’ve been getting bored.
So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple .
Forbes had unmasked Comex as Nicholas (more…)

iPhone and PS3 hacker George Hotz aka Geohot who has been off the limelight since the infamous Sony lawsuit is now working at Facebook according to p0sixninja of the Chronic dev team. The
and later verified by Gabe Rivera of Techmeme.  He apparently joined Facebook in May and announced it on his Facebook profile on June 17th.
, 
.
It is not yet clear what is he working on at Facebook, but considering Geohot’s expertise in discovering security (more…)

iPhone Hacker and expert, Piergiorgio Zambrini (aka Zibri) who had developed
, an extremely popular software method to
running iOS firmware 1.x  is making headlines again.
, which indicates that Apple plans to use wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm’s baseband for
.
Tired of all rumors and “undisclosed sources” of the last week roll of blog posts around the web, I decided to dig the matter to get a definitive answer.
In the picture (more…)

Kaatje explains that the process involved creating a custom ipsw file for iPhone OS 4.0 and restoring it on her iPhone 3GS using
“I accomplished this by patching asr, lockdownd, LLB, iBEC, IBSS, iBoot, kernelcache, MobileSafari, Services.plist, and fstab. The binaries were patched with IDA Pro and OxED and were then diffed against the original pwned files with bsdiff to create patch files. I then took the diff files and built a firmware bundle (more…)

Speaking to ABC News, Ashley said,
When people jailbreak their phone, it allows them to install a service on their phone called SSH. Generally you should always change your password after setting up on the iPhone as all iPhones use the same password.This virus pretty much exploits people's laziness to change their password
With this, the iPhone platform has seen its first virus attack and while there has not been anymalicious intent in this (more…)

This is a screenshot of the SMS the hacked iPhone users received.

(Credit:

Tweakers.net)

A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net.

One of the victims posted a screenshot from his iPhone of the SMS received. It said: “Your iPhone ‘s (more…)