A security update for Apple ’s iPhone does more than just sterilize vital flaw in the handset . It also looks for and wipe out any modifications that drug user make to the firmware on their telephone set , according to hackers appear to unlock the telephone set .
But the security measure update does not break any of the tools that hackers have so far developed to alter the iPhone ’s microcode , they enjoin .
TheiPhone v1.0.1update primarily addresses a security defect uncover in the handset ’s Safari internet browser that was to be detail Thursday at the Black Hat 2007 conference in Las Vegas . Thatvulnerability , uncovered by investigator at Independent Security Evaluators ( ISE ) , allows an assailant to approach datum and covering on the phone from a Wi - Fi access decimal point or a malicious Web site .
When the update installs itself using iTunes , it also tick for change that have been made to the phone ’s microcode , the hacker said . When change are find in the old firmware , the update pass over the earpiece and then reinstalls the updated microcode , erasing any modifications that a user made .
On Wednesday , hacker involved with seek to unlock the iPhone at the # iphone Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ) transmission channel were still coming to suitcase with the impact of Apple ’s security update , face to quiz whether instrument they developed persist in to work . ( Hackers have require journalists not to publish tie to their land site , iPhone Dev Wiki , allege it ’s not capable to handle heavy volume of traffic . )
Initially , the Apple surety update appear to block the power to write files on the iPhone using the Jailbreak feature of the iActivation tool developed by the hackers , meaning the peter could no longer be used to sum personalized ringtones to the phone .
However , the 1.0 version of Jailbreak continues to work all right , according to an update on iPhone Dev Wiki .
