Comex Wins a Pwnie Award for his JailbreakMe Exploit, GeoHot Wins Best Song
04/08/2011 |
For those who aren’t familiar with the event, the Pwnie Awards is an annual awards show celebrating failures and achievements in the security community. This year’s ceremony took place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the BlackHat security conference.
All together there were 9 awards handed out, and it probably won’t surprise you that a certain iDevice hacker took home one of them. As a matter of fact, 2 well known members of the jailbreak community ended up taking home...
JailbreakMe Will "Be Back Soon" [Updated]
The tension is getting harder and harder for the release of JailbreakMe. After being leaked to everyone over the weekend, we found out that JailbreakMe was officially going to be released to the public today or tomorrow.The JailbreakMe website just got updated again, this time to show a sign stat...
Comex Running Out of Bugs to Fix in JailbreakMe, Release Imminent?
We know JailbreakMe is right around the corner. Comex keeps dropping hints at an imminent release but unfortunately there always seems to be bumps in the road. This time though, it appears that Comex is almost done ironing out the kinks of JailbreakMe.In a tweet sent a few hours ago, Comex said h...
JailbreakMe 3.0 Will Have Much Faster Install Time
Comex, the creator of the userland jailbreak known as JailbreakMe, hasdevelopeda method for a much faster install time in his upcoming jailbreak. He has managed to get rid of Cydia’s “ReorganizingFilesystem” message by abandoning the current ‘stashing’ filesystem app...
JailbreakMe 3.0 Now Live!
It’s finally here, folks! Comex has released the highly anticipated JailbreakMe 3.0, code named Saffron. The web-based jailbreak works on all iDevices, including the iPad 2, on iOS 4.3.3, and iOS 4.3.3 only for the time being.This userland jailbreak is super easy to perform straight on your...
If You Used JailbreakMe, Maybe You Should Consider Making a Donation to Comex
With over 500,000 iDevices jailbroken with JailbreakMe Saffron since last night, can you imagine if Comex made $1 for each of these devices? Yes, he’d probably be flying first class to some Caribbean island by now.But let’s be realistic, not everyone would want to pay for a jailbreak,...
A Portrait of Comex
If you’ve ever considered jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad, no doubt you’ve heard about an iOS hacker going by the handle Comex, the guy who discovered several important exploits, and the creator of JailbreakMe.Besides his Twitter handle, we don’t know much about Comex. A Forbes...
JailbreakMe Used 2,000,000 Times, Responsible for Jailbreaking 1% of All iDevices
JailbreakMe was released just a few days ago and has already had fulgurant success. Twelve hours after its launch, 500,000 iDevices had already been jailbroken. Fastforward a few days later, and JailbreakMe has now been used over 2,000,000 times.The news that came this morning via Chpwn’s T...
500,000 iDevices Have Already Been Jailbroken with JailbreakMe
Talk about a hit! iOS jailbreak developer Chpwn just tweeted that JailbreakMe, which was released about 10 hours ago, has already been used to jailbreak 500,000 devices, including iPhones, iPads, and iPods. Also according to Chpwn, the website www.JailbreakMe.com has seen over 1,000,000 visitors ...
Fake Ra1nb0wRa1n iPhone Jailbreak Website Deemed Not the Real Deal
Getting confused from all of the Ra1n? There’s BlackRa1n, LimeRa1n, PurpleRa1n, and the upcoming RubyRa1n. It’s enough to confuse even the best meteorologist.To add to the level of confusion, someone(s) impersonating renowed iPhone hacker GeoHot has released a site called Ra1nb0wRa1n ...
New PDF Exploit Uncovered By Comex in iOS, Return of JailbreakMe?
We’re calling it, folks: famed jailbreak hacker, Comex, has uncovered another PDF exploit in iOS that will allow for a userland jailbreak, ala JailbreakMe.This is based off the above teaser image, which Comex just announced on his Twitter and is available for viewing on jailbreakme.com. If ...
