Thursday, April 19, 2012

iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak Is Coming Very Soon

After long time of waiting. Pod2g finally announced some important updates for iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak. Pod2g is the well known hacker and developer of dream team " Chronic dev & iPhone dev team ". Let's check  iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak new updates which were released by Pod2g but after the jump.



The iOS security researcher has published some interesting news which promises that a new untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1 is on the horizon. Pod2g confirmed that they have all exploits required to do a new jailbreak, and he is working on bypassing ASLR  " Address Space Layout Randomization) at boot up





What is ASLR :
Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a computer security method which involves randomly arranging the positions of key data areas, usually including the base of the executable and position of libraries, heap, and stack, in a process’s address space.
Apple introduced ASLR in iOS 4.3. This makes it harder to jailbreak the iDevice, and stops apps from breaking the device accidentally.
It seems that we are few steps away from releasing iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak for iPad 3, 2, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4S, 4, 3G, iPod touch 4G and 3G.