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Apple acknowledges iOS 6.1 Exchange bug and has identified a fix

posted onFebruary 14, 2013
by l33tdawg

On January 28 Apple released iOS 6.1 and with it, a significant bug that's been giving IT administrators headaches. Almost immediately after 6.1 was released Microsoft Exchange admins began noticing that iPhones and iPads running 6.1 were causing "excessive logging" on the server.

Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Nearly Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked In Four Days

posted onFebruary 11, 2013
by l33tdawg

Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company’s own users.

Nearly seven million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners have cracked Apple’s restrictions on their devices using the jailbreaking tool Evasi0n since the tool was released Monday morning, according to the latest count from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the app store for jailbroken devices known as Cydia. That makes the iOS-hacking app the fastest-adopted jailbreak software of all time, Freeman says.

evasi0n.com goes live in preparation for iOS 6 jailbreak

posted onJanuary 31, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon.

An elite team of hackers has been working for months to develop an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system, which would allow users to customize their phones and install applications not vetted by Apple.

Apple starts to lose thermonuclear war

posted onJanuary 30, 2013
by l33tdawg

Apple is starting to significantly lose ground in its attempts to squash competition from Android.

The late Steve Jobs, always one for believing his own marketing, declared what he called thermonuclear war on his old business partners Google and Samsung, ironically claiming that they nicked his ideas. One of his ideas was the rounded rectangle which would be news to Euclid who thought of it a few thousand years ago.