Official iPhone: RIP Steve Jobs.. Jailbreak Avail for 5.0(Page 1)

Originally Posted by retro23phan

Originally Posted by Maelstroom

Can someone help on Cydia? I want to get rid of the little number on the Cydia icon which indicates I have an update. The only update requires a purchase. When I click purchase, it goes to a log in screen. How do I skip the upgrade?
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you can't, its going to stay as long as you have the program. i know it sucks seeing it but that is the warning you take with the program.
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Darn
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I guess ill leave it and keep gpsphone.
 
Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU

SLATERSB- how i go about downloading a theme from online and putting it on my iphone?
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I use transmit, and ssh the themes into my iphone. update

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Originally Posted by Alchemist IQ

I need help, I wanted to update my Iphone 3g to the latest firmware. It failed to update then, I had to restore my Iphone but it also failed to restore back to normal. I tried all options but this thing won't go back to normal state. Help me please.
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Anyone know how troubleshoot this? I still need help.
 
Originally Posted by debs 168

WHEN ARE WE GETTING MMS.
WHEN.
WHEN.

enough of viewmymessages.com and workarounds. WHEN ARE WE GETTING MMS. notice that there's no question mark at the end of that sentence.
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I'd like to know too. Dude at AT&T store had told me late July...
 
Originally Posted by slaterSB

What theme is that?
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CAROL & Teneo Icons. Tasters Choice Dock & Wallpaper


the teneo icons is that apart of a theme app or it came alone?? im looking for some icons ( im on stock ones) but i cant see to find any out there that arealone most of them are programmed with a theme ( spring board) and i really wanan just keep my background the way it is. any advice on how this is done??? ihave a OG 2g iphone if that helps any. thanks !!!!
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[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Wanted to upgrade both my girls and my iphone 3g to the 3gs...But only i'meligible for the upgrade, and her line isn't...They wanna charge a crazy early upgrade fee, any way to get around it without paying the stupid fee...Anyinput is appreciated...[/color]
 
Originally Posted by aveezytheBEAST

Originally Posted by ludex360

cydia keeps crashing on my 3g 3.0, i googled and couldnt find any answers. please help
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that happened to me too. You will have to re-jailbreak it correctly
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Same happened to me the first time i jailbroke it after upgrading to 3.0.. just re-jailbreak it..

Works for me..
 
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/sms-hijack-iphone/
Security
How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
Andy Greenberg, 07.28.09, 5:40 PM ET

If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly.

That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they've found in the iPhone's handling of text messages, the researchers say they'll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone's functions. That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device's camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.

"This is serious. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone," Miller told Forbes. "Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this."

Though Miller and Mulliner say they notified Apple about the vulnerability more than a month ago, the company hasn't released a patch, and it didn't respond to Forbes' repeated calls seeking comment.

The iPhone SMS bug is just one of a series that the researchers plan to reveal in their talk. They say they've also found a similar texting bug in Windows Mobile that allows complete remote control of Microsoft-based devices. Another pair of SMS bugs in the iPhone and Google's Android phones would purportedly allow a hacker to knock a phone off its wireless network for about 10 seconds with a series of text messages. The trick could be repeated again and again to keep the user offline, Miller says. Though Google has patched the Android flaw, this second iPhone bug also remains unpatched, he adds.

The new round of bugs aren't the first that Miller has dug up in the iPhone's code. In 2007, he became the first to remotely hijack the iPhone using a flaw in its browser. But while that vulnerability gave the attacker a similar power over the phone's functions, it required tricking the user into visiting an infected Web site to invisibly download a piece of malicious software. When Miller alerted Apple in July of that year, the company patched the vulnerability before Miller publicized the bug at the Black Hat conference the following month. ("See: Hacking the iPhone.")

The new attacks, by contrast, can strike a phone without any action on the part of the user and are virtually unpreventable while the phone is powered on, according to Miller and Mulliner's research. And unlike the earlier exploits, Apple has inexplicably left them unpatched, Miller says. "I've given them more time to patch this than I've ever given a company to patch a bug," he says.

The Windows bug he and Mulliner plan to reveal hasn't been patched either, says Miller, though he admits that he and Mulliner discovered the Windows flaw on Monday and hadn't yet alerted Microsoft to its existence.

The attack developed by Miller and Mulliner works by exploiting a missing safeguard in the phones' text messaging software that prevents code in the messages' text from overflowing into other parts of the device's memory where it can run as an executable program. The two researchers plan to demonstrate how a series of 512 SMS messages can exploit the bug, with only one of those messages actually appearing on the phone, showing a small square. (Someone could easily design the attack to show a different message or without any visible messages, Miller cautions.) The entire process of infecting an iPhone and then using the device to infect another phone on the user's contact list would take only a few minutes, Miller says.

The vulnerability of SMS to that sort of attack will likely be a hot topic at this year's Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity confabs. Two other researchers, Zane Lackey and Luis Miras, say they plan to present other vulnerabilities in major vendors' SMS applications, though they declined to discuss which vendors or the specifics of the vulnerabilities before the companies had issued patches.

Lackey and Miras argue that SMS demands far more attention from the cybersecurity community and device vendors. "Like a lot of mobile phone software, it's been relatively unexplored in the past," Lackey told Forbes. "Only recently has there been proper debugging and development tools available. SMS exemplifies a common trend: once it was a simple technology. Now it's being used in devices far beyond its original purposes, and security is still playing catch up."

The researchers' concerns aren't merely theoretical. Finnish security firm F-Secure says it's found nearly 500 different variants of mobile phone malicious software since 2004, mostly using Bluetooth to hop between phones in close proximity. But in the last 18 months, cybercriminals have begun using text messages to send links to malicious Web sites that infect the phone with malware, says Mikko Hyppönen, an F-Secure researcher.

One seemingly-Chinese variant, known as "Sexy View" and currently targeting the Symbian operating system, is far more threatening than an iPhone attack, given that around 50% of cellphones use Symbian, Hyppönen says. "After years of the security industry wondering why we aren't seeing text message worms, it's starting to happen now," he says.

While many of those ongoing attacks are merely hacker experiments, some have used phones to text premium numbers that generate revenue for cybercriminals. "Mostly it's still about curiosity and fun, but eventually the criminal guys move in," says Hyppönen. "We're probably on the verge of that right now."

As dangerous as his iPhone attack sounds, Miller argues that it's important to expose flaws in SMS software before they can be exploited by more malicious actors. Texting applications' insecurity isn't due to the software's complexity so much as the security community's inattention and the expense of sending thousands of text messages to test a phone's security, Miller says.

"The bad news is that SMS is the perfect attack vector, but the good news is that it's probably possible to build it securely," he says. "As a researcher, I can only show [Apple] the bugs. It's up to them to fix them."
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