Car Tech Hardware Researchers jailbreak Tesla using unpatchable AMD hardware flaw for free feature upgrades TU Berlin researchers' voltage fault attack strikes again By Daniel Sims, August 4, 2023, 2:01 PM 21 comments
Gaming Software Modder jailbreaks PlayStation 5 using WebKit vulnerability More of an entry point than a definitive jailbreak By Shawn Knight, October 3, 2022, 1:24 PM
Hardware Security Australian hacker devises jailbreak to run Doom on John Deere combines Oh Deere... By Adrian Potoroaca, August 16, 2022, 4:46 PM
Gaming Tech Culture PlayStation 4 now has a jailbreak that might eventually work on PS5 Sony patched it on December 1, but it should work if you have not updated in the last two weeks By Cal Jeffrey, December 14, 2021, 2:14 PM
Apple Security Apple rushes out iOS 15.0.2 just hours after 15.0.1 to patch actively exploited zero-day bug Another major security flaw that can allow hackers to take over a device By Cal Jeffrey, October 13, 2021, 4:19 PM 8 comments
Security Apple Hackers use a vulnerability present in iOS 11-14.3 to jailbreak iPhones Apple says the exploit was being actively used as late as January, but has patched it with iOS 14.4 By Cal Jeffrey, March 1, 2021, 4:15 PM
Apple Software Apple releases security-focused iOS 13.5.1 update Patches iPhones against the recently released Unc0ver jailbreaking tool By Humza Aamir, June 2, 2020, 9:22 AM
Apple Software Latest iPhone jailbreak even works on all recent versions of iOS How long will it take Apple to patch this? By Shawn Knight, May 24, 2020, 1:33 PM
Software Mobile Project Sandcastle revives the dream of running Android on iPhone The best of both worlds? By David Matthews, March 5, 2020, 10:37 PM
Apple Mobile New iPhone bootROM exploit might lead to permanent jailbreak on hundreds of millions of devices Exploit cannot be patched without a hardware update By Cal Jeffrey, September 27, 2019, 2:58 PM
Mobile Apple Apple re-patches vulnerability that briefly allowed users to jailbreak their iPhones The bug re-appeared after being fixed in iOS 12.3 By Cohen Coberly, August 26, 2019, 6:07 PM
Apple Apple Card disallows jailbroken phones and cryptocurrency purchases Also you must maintain your account electronically through the Wallet app (most of the time) By Cal Jeffrey, August 3, 2019, 12:16 PM 17 comments
Mobile Apple Cydia the app store for iOS jailbreakers stops accepting payments True customization of iOS is almost dead By Greg Synek, December 17, 2018, 9:39 AM
Gaming Sony sues man after he allegedly sold jailbroken PS4 consoles loaded with pirated games Sony is sending a message to the pirates By Rob Thubron, October 9, 2018, 7:43 AM 9 comments
News Around the Web Weekend tech reading: Remembering the MOS Technology 6502 CPU, Razer seeks $600 million in Hong Kong IPO By Matthew DeCarlo, July 2, 2017, 11:30 AM
Gaming Proof-of-concept Nintendo Switch jailbreak teased by hacker It's a starting point for further research but not a complete jailbreak of the Switch By Jose Vilches, March 14, 2017, 7:00 AM
Security Apple Exploit broker will pay $1.5 million for iOS 10 remote jailbreak By Shawn Knight, September 30, 2016, 5:15 PM
Apple Security Malware steals 225,000 Apple logins from jailbroken iPhones By Tim Schiesser, September 1, 2015, 6:45 AM 8 comments
Mobile Software Popcorn Time for non-jailbroken iOS devices lands today By Shawn Knight, April 8, 2015, 9:00 AM
Mobile Apple Pangu jailbreak tool for iOS 8.0/8.1 now available for Mac users By Himanshu Arora, November 11, 2014, 11:45 AM
Apple Mobile iOS 8.1 jailbreak hits the web but it doesn't have Cydia yet By Shawn Knight, October 22, 2014, 12:15 PM
Microsoft Mobile Windows Phone 8 on the Nokia Lumia 920 potentially jailbroken By Tim Schiesser, December 31, 2013, 11:00 AM
Mobile iOS 7 finally gets jailbroken, just in time for the holidays By Tim Schiesser, December 23, 2013, 7:15 AM
Gaming Deus Ex: The Fall for iOS takes a controversial approach to piracy By Shawn Knight, July 15, 2013, 8:30 AM 23 comments
Apple Software Hacker supplies proof that iOS 7 has already been jailbroken By Shawn Knight, July 1, 2013, 4:30 PM