Tag Archives: bootrom

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Geohot: There Is An Unreleased Exploit In Every iDevice

Geohot gave a talk at Nuit du Hack explaining the history of iPhone hacking and revealed that there is an unreleased exploit in the bootrom of every iPhone, iPod, and iPad. “There is also, I hinted to this a couple

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Will Apple Block SHSH Downgrade With Next iPhone??

Geo Hot’s Response :  “Welcome to proper challenge response, guess someone at Apple finally read a book on security. At least it’s not in the bootroms yet.” The firmwareumbrella published in his blog that he found a new key named

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Dev Team Releases PwnageTool 3.1.5

The iPhone Dev-Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X which lets some iPhones upgrade safely to the 3.1.3 firmware. Using PwnageTool to upgrade will preserve your jailbreak and ultrasn0w unlock. If you are using the blacksn0w unlock at

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BlackRa1n RC2 Jailbreak Goes Live, Supports New 3GS

Geohot has released RC2 of his Blackra1n jailbreak for the iPhone and iPod touch. This version provides a tethering jailbreak for the new iPhone 3GS with the updated Bootrom. What’s New: - Fixed 3G issues - Tethered jailbreak for 3.1

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DevTeam: Only Tethered Jailbreak May Be Possible In New Ipod Touch and 3GS

The bootrom for new 8GB iPod Touch shows that it’s still got 24K overflow…it *may* simply need some address tweaks Update #1 10/17/2009 We can now confirm that the new 8GB iPod touch is not vulnerable to 24Kpwn. It took

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False Alarm: New iPhone 3GS Not Jailbreak-Proof

Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple’s new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience for jailbroken devices, and the handset

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Apple Blocks Jailbreak in New iPhone 3GS Units!

Apple is now shipping the iPhone 3GS with a new Bootrom that is not vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit. The iBoot-359.3.2 started to ship last week. A screenshot posted by Mathieulh shows the new version number. MuscleNerd from the iPhone

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iPhone Dev: Future Proof Your iPhone 3GS Jailbreak

Future-proofing the 3GS jailbreak If there’s one thing we’ve been stressing the last few weeks, it’s that if you want to keep the jailbreak or unlock on your 3GS, you should resist all urges to install Apple’s official firmware updates