When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 15.2 on Monday, it closed a large number of security holes that could have been used for jailbreaking, including a handful that were used by the Pangu Team to remotely pwn an iPhone 13 Pro on the first day of TianfuCup 2021.
The macOS version of AltServer received an important update Wednesday afternoon, officially bringing the popular sideloading platform for iPhones and iPads up to version 1.4.8.
One of the things that Apple appears to pride itself with in its many marketing campaigns is user privacy and security. But does the Cupertino-based company and its staff actually hold these values as dearly and close to the heart as they lead on?
Apple released iOS 15.1.1 for the iPhone 12 & 13 lineups a couple of Mondays ago with an important bug fix pertaining to dropped phone calls. Although I hadn’t experienced this problem myself, it was obviously experienced by enough users that it warranted a resolution from the OEM.
It would be a good idea for jailbreakers who take advantage of the Substitute tweak injection method to open their preferred package manager and refresh their sources this morning.
Jailbreakers who’ve been at it for more than just a couple of seasons should recognize the Twitter handle @08Tc3wBB, as it belongs to a ZecOps security researcher touting a marvelous track record of infiltrating iOS and iPadOS.
After jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, you’ll get most of your jailbreak tweaks and add-ons from dedicated repositories (or sources) that you access from a package manager app, such as Cydia. But then the inevitable happens; you find yourself plagued by unexpected error messages when trying to refresh your repository sources. Bummer, isn’t it?
Jailbreakers of the modern day should be vividly familiar with AltDaemon, the useful utility for jailbroken iPhones and iPads that works in unison with AltStore to install, refresh, and update sideloaded apps without a computer.
Those following the Fugu14 untether that security researcher Linus Henze released just last month will likely be happy to hear that it has been updated again with notable improvements.
If you’ve been following along lately, then you might be well-versed on the impressive number of spicy iOS & iPadOS exploits that have been surfacing over the past several weeks.
Apple last Monday released iOS & iPadOS 15.1 to the general public following a lengthy beta testing period with a bevy of enhancements for the company’s mobile operating systems. Those enhancements comprised of SharePlay, support for COVID-19 vaccination cards in the Wallet app, an automatic macro toggle for the Camera app, and a plethora of bug fixes among other things.
With all the recent excitement swirling around with respect to Linus Henze’s Fugu14 untether release and the unc0ver jailbreak receiving multiple updates with preliminary support for it, some might say it was easy to forget about a previously-published kernel exploit proof-of-concept by security researcher Saar Amar.