New filesystem security on iOS 7 | XS-Labs - Blog: "Back in the days, I developed a tiny iOS app to display the content of the iOS filesystem"

New security features in iOS7 hide contents of System folders from 3rd party apps.

Labels: security

Apple software engineering director departs after 12 years to join iXsystems: "A software engineer for more than 25 years, Hubbard was a co-founder of the FreeBSD project before signing on with Apple in June of 2001."

I used a freebsd hosting platform for about 10 years and it was notable for uptime and lack of security holes.

Labels: freebsd, security

Chinese accessory maker claims to have 'permanently cracked' Apple's Lightning authentication: "iPhone5mod's Lightning crack is said to be hardware-based. According to the company, Apple cannot negate the crack without reworking its own Lightning hardware. "

"You want a piece of this? Do you?" Clearly the answer is yes. They want to ship products without paying royalties. Or whatever. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Labels: hacking, hardware

MachOView | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net
MachOView is a visual Mach-O file browser. It provides a complete solution for exploring and in-place editing Intel and ARM binaries."

Have been looking into some of the tools that the boyz are using to hack the iPhone and discovered this particularly awesome binary dumper.

While we're on the subject, I also noted that classdump has been updated to support Lion.

http://stevenygard.com/projects/class-dump/

Labels: macho