iOS

Apple on Saturday evening tapped developers to begin testing a fifth pre-release version of its iCloud cloud computing service software for the company's new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system alongside the first external beta of Mac OS X 10.7.2.

The move is somewhat unusual given that Apple is requiring developers to install Mac OS X 10.7.2 build 11C26 in order to use iCloud beta 5 but has yet to provide developers with any information of test builds of Mac OS X 10.7.1.

Apple has proved once again that Fridays are still work days by dropping iOS 5 Beta 4. Developers can now download the latest iOS 5 beta in Apple’s dev channel, and, for the first time, through the miracle of over-the-air updates.

Those on iOS 5 Beta 3 should be able to wirelessly upgrade to Beta 4.

An iPhone-based device will soon let police forces identify within seconds a suspect based on facial features, fingerprints, or now the unique features of the human eye.

The blocky device, dubbed MORIS, attaches to the back of an Apple iPhone. To use the iris scan, a police officer holds the phone's camera about 6 inches from the suspect's face and snaps a close-up of the eye. The software analyzes over 200 unique features and, if the suspect's scan is already in a database, an algorithm matches them, and identifies the suspect.

Apple has approved Google's social networking for app for the iPhone.

The Facebook-bating network unveiled recently by the search engine giant has made its first foray into the mobile arena today when it quietly appeared on the iTunes App Store. The free app has all the same functionality as its desktop-bound sibling featuring Circles, Stream and Huddle which do all the same stuff as Facebook has been doing for years.

After last week's report from the German government regarding PDF-related security vulnerabilities in MobileSafari, Apple has stepped up: The company on Friday released updates for all iOS devices that fix the problem. The updates are recommended for all users of Apple's mobile devices.

Shoulder surfing, the simple act of leering over a computer users’ shoulder to spy on passwords and other sensitive info, may not seem like the most advanced hacker trick. But when it comes to shoulder surfing Apple’s iPad, Haroon Meer has it down to a science.

By now, security-conscious IT pros know about the new and improved version of the iOS jailbreaking software, jailbreakme, now with iPad 2 support. It ingeniously exploits a flaw in the iOS PDF display code to, via a buffer overrun attack, load jailbreak code into the root file system of the device. Once rebooted, the hacked code injects itself into the device's startup sequence using the video frame buffer as its temporary scratch memory.

What's JailbreakMe? It's an easy way to jailbreak an Apple iOS device using a PDF (related) vulnerability. It's done with a "drive-by" style exploit.

All somebody needs to jailbreak their (newer) iPad/iPhone/iPod is to visit jailbreakme.com and to touch the free/install button. The German Federal Office for Information Security has issued a warning about this. They're concerned about the potential for targeted malicious attacks using trojanized versions of the JailbreakMe exploit.

Apple on Thursday said it is working to fix a security flaw in its iOS mobile platform that is being used to jailbreak iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices and may soon be leveraged by more nefarious individuals.

The flaw, which involves the way iOS handles fonts embedded in PDF files, was revealed on Wednesday with the release of JailbreakMe 3, a web-based tool that allows users to easily jailbreak their devices, including the iPad 2.

JailbreakMe.com, the one-click web-based way to jailbreak your iOS devices, is back online and ready to jailbreak your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. From the Jailbreakme.com website: