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The Semi JB iOS 9 jailbreak is offering Cydia with limited features and is unable to install system apps and sources, though it remains the only option now available for jailbreakers. Less than 2 months to come up with iOS 9 exploits are too less, especially if you are someone who does not have an iOS developer credential, and the bounty might go unclaimed. It seems possible, as hackers had iOS 8.4 jailbroken nearly instantly.
The jailbreaking community, SemiJB, has released a partial jailbreak of the latest version of Apple’s operating system, iOS 9. It took Apple only a couple of weeks to patch that jailbreak, however, so perhaps the company is getting better at plugging holes that could be exploited by jailbreakers before they have a chance to do so.
Exploit traders Zerodium will pay a million dollars to anyone who finds an unpatched bug in iOS 9 that can be exploited to jailbreak iThings – or compromise them.
Describing the newly-launch iOS 9 version as the most secure mobile OS as of now, Zerodium said in a recent blog post that though the Apple iOS is affected by critical vulnerabilities, just like other operating systems, the key strength of iOS 9 is that it has an “increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in place”. Attacks can also initiate via text messages or multimedia files sent over SMS or MMS. According to the company’s website, its clients include “major corporations in defense, technology, and finance, in need of advanced zero-day protection, as well as government organizations in need of specific and tailored cybersecurity capabilities”. Zerodium is offering the reward until 6 p.m. Eastern on October 31.
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Zerodium was founded by Chaouki Bekrar, a very popular figure in the zero-day hacking community. Many companies operate their own reward programmes to compel researchers to turn in bugs and vulnerabilities so issues can be fixed, although some prefer to disclose flaws publicly so users can be warned.
