Jailbreak

Last night JailbreakMe.com 3.0 was released in the early morning, thanks to the amazing work of Comex and all those involved. This jailbreak is the easiest ever as it exposes a PDF exploit within iOS (a patch is available via Cydia). JailbreakMe.com has now surpassed 1,000,000 jailbreaks--a phenomenal achievement in less than 24 hours, as...

Late last night JailbreakMe 3.0 went live around the globe, allowing all iOS devices on iOS 4.3.3 to be jailbroken. The method to jailbreak your device relies on a malware exploit via an infected PDF. This gaping security hole does not have an unofficial fix from Apple yet (it will come in the next firmware...

Still thinking about using trying JailbreakMe.com to jailbreak your device on iOS 4.3.3? The iPhone Dev Team has posted some FAQs to help clarify: Q: Which devices and firmware versions are supported? A: In this initial release, the following configurations are supported: iPad1: 4.3 through 4.3.3 iPad2: 4.3.3 iPhone3GS: 4.3 through 4.3.3 iPhone4: 4.3 through...

Comex has unleashed his latest untethered, over the air jailbreak to the world. The site is getting hammered and there were some initial caching issues, so keep trying and be patient. It will work for all iOS devices--but you must be on iOS 4.3.3. I suggest syncing your iPhone to backup before proceeding. Once that's...

If you want to find out if your iPhone or any other device can be jailbroken, all you have to do is visit jailbre.kr. This website is by chpwn, with the domain provided by MuscleNerd. Although the info is simple and straightforward, it's a great starting point for people curious about jailbreaking their devices. Be...

The iPhone Dev Team has written about Apple 'has stepped up their game' to prevent users from restoring to previous iOS versions via saved SHSH blobs. As of now, by using a tool like TinyUmbrella (or Cydia), users have been able to save their SHSH blobs to third party servers, allowing the ability to downgrade...

Geohot, aka George Hotz is one of the 'godfathers' of jailbreaking. He recently settled his lawsuit with Sony. Later, he was challenged by p0sixninja (Joshua Hill) to help work on the iPad 2 jailbreak (which Geohot backed out of). But Geohot soon disappeared from the limelight, which is unlike his personality. Yesterday, in a @MyGreatFest...

As just confirmed by @MuscleNerd on twitter, developers looking to jailbreak just-released iOS 5 Beta 2 can do so with redsn0w, the same version released two weeks ago. MuscleNerd notes: the "keep pointing at beta1 IPSW" trick should work for all the betas, due to the way redsn0w works. Unlockers stay away! As always, this...

If you're a developer using iOS 5 Beta, @MuscleNerd has just tweeted the release of redsn0w 0.9.8b1 for Windows. The Mac version of redsn0w was released two days ago. This jailbreak is tethered. That means if you reboot your iOS device or run out of battery, you'll have to run redsn0w again to re-jailbreak. The...

Famed iPhone hacker @Comex tweeted this afternoon a hint that alludes to the revival of JailbreakMe.com for iOS 5, and possibly even for the iPad 2 on iOS 4.3.3. If you visit JailbreakMe.com on your computer, you'll see the following image: It doesn't take a genius to figure out the exploit is going to based...

Update: Link fixed for repo fixed: http://qwertyoruiop.com/beta With the release of iOS 5 Beta, the iPhone Dev Team was quick to immediately release a tethered jailbreak via redsn0w. Just as fast as the jailbreak was released, 3rd party developers went right to work and as noted by 9to5Mac, the ability to develop notification widgets was discovered...

As reported by Musclenerd via Twitter, the first beta of the redsn0w jailbreak tool is now available to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1 (Apple developer account required for iOS 5 beta). redsn0w jailbreak for iOS5 beta released: http://is.gd/6eek4Y ... Mac devs only (please don't pirate Apple software!) The jailbreak tool is a Mac-only tethered jailbreak,...