Apple has released a security patch to block hackers from gaining access to any iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad running the latest versions of their mobile operating system. That's the good news. The bad: Users who have jailbroken their devices, hacking them in a legal but warranty-busting move to run unauthorized apps, will lose access to the unauthorized content.
Anyone who wants to jailbreak after updating will likely have a harder time of it, too, until hackers devise the next jailbreak technique.Information about the security hole surfaced last week. The flaw allows hackers to get access to information stored on Apple's mobile devices by putting a PDF file with hidden code onto a website and encouraging users to download the PDF. When users try to display the PDF, they see a "stack overflow" message, which then triggers the code inside the PDF to do a variety of damage, from deleting files to installing programs to monitor the user's actions.
[via MSN ]
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