Hackers of iPhone awarded $1 Million Bounty

Apple has been claiming that its iOS9 cannot be breached. However, this claim has been rendered futile by a group of unknown hackers. Acting on a bounty offer from Zerodium, these hackers could successfully jailbreak iOS9.1 and iOS9.2b devices.

The actually challenge was much tougher than simply jailbreaking the Apple devices. Zerodium is a security firm that works with several government agencies. It offered the bounty of $1 million to those who can jailbreak iOS powered devices and the findings will be kept secret for the use of only these government agencies. These will not be released to the public and the name of the hacking group is kept a secret.

Zerodium is still evaluating the jailbreaking exploit. As a part of the attack criteria, it was essential that the jailbreaking needs to be done in a remote manner using browsers such as Safari or Chrome and through messaging services. It means that it is not a single exploit and required multiple exploits or a chain of exploits to jailbreak Apple devices with iOS9.x.

After the large bounty was announced, various teams tried to work on the vulnerability but only one could succeed. Companies like Google announce their own bounties to white hack hackers who can reveal their vulnerabilities so that these companies could patch them. Apple does not follow this practice and instead claims to be highly secure. Apple is not completely incorrect either.

The jailbreaking instance of iOS9.x is the first in last one year since the exploit of iOS7 and it took the announcement of a bounty of $1 million for someone to succeed at jailbreaking iOS9.x. It shows that Apple devices are actually quite secure. Even the government agencies have complained about the inability to breach the encryption of iOS9.x devices. It seems Zerodium might have found an answer for them.

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by Malik korrich ~ mercredi 4 novembre 2015 0 commentaires

Apple announces a bounty of $3 million for identifying bugs in iOS 9 | IOS 9 | Iphone | Apple |

Apple has released the latest version of its coveted operating system for mobile devices iOS. The latest version of the iOS is iOS 9 and it is already being touted as the most secure and save version of the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, the mobile devices of Apple.

Apple has introduced rootless technology in iOS 9 which makes it impossible to jailbreak the devices that run iOS 9. Since there is no root, rooting is impossible and therefore jailbreaking is also improbable.

There have been several reported incidents of bugs and malware that have affected Android and iOS users. Among the attacks faced by Apple, XcodesGhost is one of the most sophisticated and unique attacks that Apple has ever faced. The malware affects not just the Apple apps but rather its Xcodes so that it goes unnoticed. When developers use this bugged XcodesGhost to develop apps, the malicious codes get loaded into the apps. Several of such apps were uploaded on Apple App Store and affected various devices.

Jailbroken Apple devices have also been hit by several bugs. It is because of these factors Apple has made certain technological innovations in its latest version of the operating system iOS 9. Even popular jailbreakers are finding it impossible to jailbreak iOS 9. Apple has challenged anyone who can jailbreak iOS 9 with a bounty of US$3 million.

A famous hacker Tem PanGu has stated that the beta version of iOS 9 has been jailbroken and hackers are working on jailbreaking iOS 9.1. However, no official statement has been announced about the jailbreaking of iOS 9.1.

Jailbreaking iOS 9 is not impossible but very difficult. It is very complicated and would be very 

expensive for anyone trying to jailbreak. A bounty of $3 million is aptly priced for such as huge challenge.


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by Malik korrich ~ samedi 10 octobre 2015 0 commentaires