Late last week, jalibreak hacker pod2g disclosed an issue with the way Apple’s iOS handles optional headers in SMS messages, a vulnerability that could allow users to be targeted by SMS spoofing that makes messages appear to originate from people other than the actual senders. While SMS spoofing is certainly not new and can be performed through various services, this specific issue in the...
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Chronic Dev Team today announced the release of Absinthe 2.0, which offers users the ability to jailbreak numerous iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1, including the third-generation iPad, without having to tether the device to a computer for booting. The jailbreaking process allows users to load third-party software and hacks not authorized by Apple onto their devices.Absinthe 2.0 works only on...
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iOS developer David Smith has been posting iOS version stats for his Universal app Audiobooks [Direct Link]. Smith gets about 100,000 weekly downloads to both his paid and free versions and believes it is a statistically meaningful data set.With the launch of iOS 5.1 on March 7th, 2012, Smith has been tracking the adoption rate which he suspected would be faster than in the past due to the...
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A security firm has discovered a security issue in the iOS 5.1 version of MobileSafari, the most recent version of the operating system that runs on millions of Apple mobile devices. The behavior was discovered and detailed by David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity.net.The weakness is caused due to an error within the handling of URLs when using javascript’s window.open() method. This can be...
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iDownloadblog reveals some new iOS 5.1 strings that include references to “4G”. “4G_ON_CALL_CANCEL” = “Cancel”;“4G_ON_CALL_OK_DISABLE” = “Disable”;“4G_ON_CALL_OK_ENABLE” = “Enable”;“4G_ON_CALL_WARNING_DISABLE” = “Disabling 4G will end your phone call. Are you sure you want to disable 4G?”;“4G_ON_CALL_WARNING_ENABLE” = “Enabling 4G will end...
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