Only a couple days ago we told you that hacker Planetbeing said over Twitter that “the future of Jailbreaking is looking bright.” I relayed a theory that this could be to do with the Dev-Team possessing numerous exploits that could future-proof the iOS 6 Untethered Jailbreak to a certain degree. One of our readers also suggested [...]

If you couldn’t afford the ~$1500 tickets to see this year’s Hack In The Box security conference to Amsterdam, conference will officially be releasing their 2012 presentations as videos on YouTube starting today. The presentation given by Pod2g, Planetbeing, Pimskeks and Posixninja of the Dream Team behind the Absinthe 2.0 untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1 is not yet [...]

If you’ve been in the iPhone modding scene for a while, you might have noticed that the Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak doesn’t require booting your device into DFU mode. As it turns out, the simpler it is to jailbreak a phone for the end user, the more of a security threat the underlying exploit is for Apple. [...]

Softpedia interviewed Pod2g, P0sixninja and Pimskeks today (after the hackers presented and released their jailbreak at the Hack In The Box security conference) and received a few hints about their preparations for Apple’s upcoming iOS 6 firmware update. Pod2g explained that the jailbreak community has a reserve of secret exploits which they have agreed not to release. The developers use [...]

The developers behind the Absinthe jailbreak are a mysterious bunch, but the core group working on the iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak gathered to give a presentation at the Hack In The Box security conference today. If you’re wondering about the people who helped your iPhones and iPads a little more flexible, we’ve found some pictures [...]

Remember when Pod2g announced that the upcoming iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak would be “some weeks away?” We’re not even at two weeks and Pod2g just announced that the jailbreak is near ready for release, only “a matter of days” according to his new estimate, thanks to work from Planetbeing and Pimskeks. David Wang, (@Planetbeing), is a developer [...]

iOS hacker and developer @pimskeks has just tweeted that Absinthe v0.4 is now available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Absinthe v0.4 brings support for Mac OS X 10.5 (PPC + Intel) and more. You can read the full changlog after the break… Version 0.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~ – Mac: added support for OSX [...]

Yesterday was an amazing day for all the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners around the world. The A5 untethered jailbreak, which was being worked on for quite a while, was finally released to the public. Developed by the Chronic Dev-Team, the jailbreak tool was called Absinthe. However, due to certain difficulties, the tool was [...]