{"id":107581,"date":"2020-05-24T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hackers-release-a-new-jailbreak-that-unlocks-every-iphone"},"modified":"2020-05-24T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:25:37","slug":"hackers-release-a-new-jailbreak-that-unlocks-every-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hackers-release-a-new-jailbreak-that-unlocks-every-iphone","title":{"rendered":"Hackers release a new jailbreak that unlocks every iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-release-a-new-jailbreak-that-unlocks-every-iphone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A renowned iPhone hacking team has released a new \u201cjailbreak\u201d tool that unlocks every iPhone, even the most recent models running the latest iOS 13.5.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Apple<\/a> has kept up its \u201cwalled garden\u201d approach to iPhones by only allowing apps and customizations that it approves, hackers have tried to break free from what they call the \u201cjail,\u201d hence the name \u201cjailbreak.\u201d Hackers do this by finding a previously undisclosed vulnerability in iOS that break through some of the many restrictions that Apple puts in place to prevent access to the underlying software. Apple says it does this for security. But jailbreakers say breaking through those restrictions allows them to customize their iPhones more than they would otherwise, in a way that most Android users are already accustomed to.<\/p>\n<p>The jailbreak, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pwn20wnd\/status\/1264315776338554880\">released by the unc0ver team<\/a>, supports all iPhones that run iOS 11 and above, including up to iOS 13.5, which Apple released <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/20\/covid-19-exposure-notification-settings-begin-to-go-live-for-ios-users-with-new-update\/\">this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned iPhone hacking team has released a new \u201cjailbreak\u201d tool that unlocks every iPhone, even the most recent models running the latest iOS 13.5. For as long as Apple has kept up its \u201cwalled garden\u201d approach to iPhones by only allowing apps and customizations that it approves, hackers have tried to break free from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}