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The iPhone Dev team has released the 'beta' version of redsn0w, their untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and iPad. This is beta, so use at your own risk and only with iOS devices you're willing to test. Known issues are Bluetooth not working, Springboard to crash via task switcher, and the...

The iPhone's security was easily compromised at the latest Pwn2Own Conference. One of the security experts there is now promising a new jailbreak tool called antid0te that will bring enhanced security for iOS devices. What is ASLR? Short for address space layout randomization, ASLR has been noticeably absent from all iOS devices since their inception,...

MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team just tweeted that he got an untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak working (video coming soon) that uses iOS 4.2b3 hashes that were kept on Cydia. This latest method is a 'backup plan' as @comex is hard at work on an extensible untethered jailbreak. This new method does not exploit any...

Update 1: If you're on iOS 4.2.1, and inject the 06.15 iPad baseband, you won't be able to restore to stock firmware, or downgrade your baseband to 05.xx. Explained by the Dev Team: WARNING — YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!  PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF UPDATING TO 06.15. There is no way to...

Update 2: from the Dev Team: There’s an error in the bundle for the iPhone3GS 4.1 that prevents the new baseband from being used.  If you know your way around OSX, please download the fixed bundle, and unzip it if Safari hasn’t already done so.  Then “Show Package Contents” of PwnageTool.app, navigate to Contents->Resources->FirmwareBundles and...

That's a common question asked by new jailbreakers, and a challenging one to articulate by master jailbreakers. The latest version of redsn0w 0.9.6b4 will jailbreak your iOS 4.2.1 device--but depending on which device you have, your jailbreak will be either tethered or untethered. Here's the following explanation from the iPhone Dev Team: Update #2:  The...

Update 1: Download links updated with mirrors and misc. notes. Yesterday the iPhone Dev Team sent an update about "Thanksgiving with Apple". Well, in less than 24 hours they have released a jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 for OS X and Windows. From what the iPhone Dev Team wrote on their blog, the following will apply:...

The iPhone Dev Team updated their blog with iOS 4.2 jailbreak news. In a post titled "Thanksgiving with Apple", they go on to say the following: The best news of all is for owners of iPhone3G, older iPhone3GS, and non-MC iPod touch 2G. Due to a combination of our original pwnage2 exploit, the arm7_go exploit,...

The iPhone Dev Team remains hard at work. Yesterday they released an updated version of PwnageTool (Mac only) to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 GM. Today, they've updated redsn0w to 0.9.6b3 (Windows users) to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 GM, but this is primarily for developers who want to do testing. It does not install the newest version of...

PwnageTool has just been updated to 4.1.2 by the iPhone Dev Team. This new releases includes bug fixes involving Cydia as stated below: [Update: Version 4.1.2 should fix any issues that OS X 10.5.x users were seeing.  You only need to run this version if you’re at OS X 10.5.x and were seeing Cydia errors]...

Update 1: Looks like the Dev Team just released 4.1.2. Click here to download. The other day we were one of the first to report that the iPhone Dev Team had released PwnageTool 4.1 to jailbreak iOS devices on 4.1 firmware. They previously mentioned PwnageTool would be released on Sunday, but it was announced on...

The recent iOS 4.1 jailbreak scene has hit some 'drama' as notorious iPhone hacker Geohot has splashed back into the scene out of nowhere with his recently released limera1n jailbreak. The iPhone Dev Team has responded with a recent blog post shedding their opinions and thoughts on the latest limera1n jailbreak:   After a few...