“A tool that lets people remotely jailbreak their iPhones could be modified to attack iPhones and iPads with malicious PDFs and appears to have prompted Germany’s government to issue a security warning to consumers,” iOS jailbreak spurs German security warning reports for CNET.
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“The Dev-Team, and specifically member Comex, today released the latest version of JailbreakMe.com, which allows people to ‘just browse to <a href="http://www.jailbreakme.com" target="_blank"http://www.jailbreakme.com on your device and install it from there!'” Mills reports. “While the tool gives iOS device users the freedom to run any application they want, including software not sanctioned by Apple, it could also be modified and used to deliver malware to iOS devices, and not just jailbroken ones.”
Mills reports, “After the tool was released, Germany’s IT agency issued a statement warning of “critical weaknesses” in iOS that could provide attackers unrestricted access to a device if a malicious PDF is clicked on, according to the Associated Press.”
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