At the top of any Face ID-equipped iPhone’s Lock Screen is that iconic padlock glyph that indicates whether your iPhone has authenticated your face or not.
RGProud turns the Face ID padlock green or red depending on authentication status
Security
The iPhone 5S (2013) and other old devices get critical security patches
Apple has provided security updates to fix known exploits on some of its older iPhone models, dating all the way back to the iPhone 5s.
PSA: TrollStore will never support any firmware newer than iOS 15.6 beta 5
Once upon a time, iOS developer Lars Fröder, or more colloquially known by the jailbreak community as @opa334 on Twitter, released a revolutionary app called TrollStore.
Legacy 3rd, 4th, and 5th generation iPod Nanos now have a bootrom exploit called wInd3x
Hardware-based bootrom exploits like limera1n and checkm8 can't be patched by Apple via software updates and are infrequent occurrences that we’d consider ourselves lucky to witness once every several years. With that in mind, a newly announced bootrom exploit for the iPod Nano 3rd, 4th, and 5th generation dubbed wInd3x may pique some interest.
Ian Beer’s MacDirtyCow bug PoC reveals it’s more powerful than originally thought
By now you’ve probably heard about the MacDirtyCow bug for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.1.2. Shortly after Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer reported CVE-2022-46689 to Apple late last year, security researcher Zhowei Zhang created a rough draft of a bug that developers now actively exploit to make operating system modifications that ordinarily wouldn’t be possible without jailbreaking.
‘Not a bypass’ is a global jailbreak detection bypass for palera1n users
Many App Store apps, such as banking apps or games will embed some form of jailbreak detection to prevent jailbreakers from using their apps. If you jailbreak, then calling this problem a thorn in your side might feel like an understatement.
Stop iPhone thieves with No2Theft for jailbroken iOS 15 and 16 devices
Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to have a good time and someone tries to walk off with your expansive iPhone? I sure do, and it’s one of the reasons why I stand behind the No2Theft jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Elias Sfeir.
DarkRa1n iCloud Bypass utility now available for A9-A11 handsets running iOS 15.0-16.2
Apple’s iCloud Activation Lock feature prevents unauthorized users from acquiring your device, restoring it as new, and using it as their own. Unfortunately, users can be locked out of their own device by this feature after forgetting a password or buying an iCloud locked device from the internet.
Protecting Apple ID accounts with physical security keys coming with iOS 16.3
A physical security key replaces two-factor verification codes for authorizing access to your Apple ID account via iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web.
Tfp0 achieved on iOS 16.1.1 as palera1n team gears up to add iOS 16.x support for checkm8 devices
It looks like iOS & iPadOS 16 support could be coming to the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak a lot sooner than originally anticipated.
Security researcher shows off kernel vulnerability on iPhone 14 running iOS 16.1.2
Hacker and security researcher @_simo36 shared a particularly captivating Tweet this weekend that was comprised of a screenshot in which they appeared to show off a vulnerability proof of concept (PoC) via a command line interface for an iPhone 14 (iPhone 15,3) running iOS 16.1.2 (build 20B110).
Predictably, the FBI demands “lawful access” to encrypted iCloud backups
The FBI has vehemently opposed Advanced Data Protection, a new feature in iOS 16.2 that encrypts your iPhone backups in iCloud with end-to-end encryption.