{"id":96756,"date":"2019-09-27T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/unfixable-exploit-is-the-latest-apple-security-upheaval"},"modified":"2019-09-27T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:02:26","slug":"unfixable-exploit-is-the-latest-apple-security-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/unfixable-exploit-is-the-latest-apple-security-upheaval","title":{"rendered":"Unfixable Exploit Is the Latest Apple Security Upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unfixable-exploit-is-the-latest-apple-security-upheaval3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security researcher Axi0mX published the exploit, called \u201ccheckm8,\u201d Friday on Github. It affects every Apple device with an A5 through A11 chipset, meaning every iPhone model from 4S to X. Though it isn\u2019t an all-in-one jailbreak on its own, the exploit provides an extensive foundation for researchers to build off of in customizing jailbreaks for every vulnerable model of device that would allow them to totally take over the unit, run software far beyond what Apple normally allows, and program apps to interact and share data in ways that Apple\u2019s protections usually preclude.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Any iPhone device from 2011 to 2017 could soon be jailbroken, thanks to an underlying flaw that there\u2019s no way to patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researcher Axi0mX published the exploit, called \u201ccheckm8,\u201d Friday on Github. It affects every Apple device with an A5 through A11 chipset, meaning every iPhone model from 4S to X. Though it isn\u2019t an all-in-one jailbreak on its own, the exploit provides an extensive foundation for researchers to build off of in customizing jailbreaks for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}