The mobile tech world, and especially the Apple corner of that world, was flooded by news over the weekend about what could have been Apple's worst nightmare come to life. Just like what happened on ...

Is it just me, or is 'game changer' a little strong? It doesn't allow decryption of data on-device. It doesn't persist after a reboot. Any malicious code installed isn't removed on reboot, but won't ...

A new BootROM exploit – which is unpatchable – potentially opens the door to jailbreaks, a researcher said. A researcher is warning of an un-patchable bug affecting hundreds of millions of iPhones ...

An iOS security researcher announced on Twitter earlier today that they have discovered a new jailbreak for iPhones (via The Verge). This new exploit — based on a bootrom vulnerability — is called ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. A new jailbreak ...

Jailbreaking gains popularity to users who can't bypass certain apps on a specific platform. For instance, some iPhone owners could not access third-party software due to restrictions from Apple.

A security researcher claims to have discovered an expliot that could lead to jailbreaken iOS models released as recently as 2017. Just as significantly, checkm8 supposedly can’t be patched by Apple, ...

Over the weekend, news spread of an unpatchable "checkm8" exploit that could allow millions of iPhone users to quickly and easily jailbreak their handsets. Lest there was any doubt it works, the ...

The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and hackers has continued for years with small victories on each side, but hackers appear to have scored an atypically large win this morning: a permanent and ...