{"314671":{"#nid":"314671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESecurity researchers at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) discovered a way to jailbreak current generation Apple iOS devices (e.g., iPhones and iPads) running the latest iOS software.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe jailbreak, which enables circumvention of Apple\u2019s closed platform, was discovered by analyzing previously patched vulnerabilities with incomplete fixes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt shows that quick workarounds mitigating only a subset of a multi-step attack leave these devices vulnerable to exploitation. Patching all vulnerabilities for a modern, complex software system (i.e., Windows and iOS) is often difficult due to the volume of bugs and response-time requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work shows that software vendors must patch all publicly disclosed threats, as they may be exploited in other, equally disruptive attacks,\u201d said Yeongjin Jang, one of the Ph.D. students who led this study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring Black Hat USA, held from Aug. 2 to 7 in Las Vegas, the GTISC research team\u0026nbsp; disclosed the process for jailbreaking the current version of iOS (7.1.2) on any iOS device, including the iPhone 5s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe start by finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities with incomplete patches,\u201d said Tielei Wang, a GTISC faculty member who worked closely with Jang as lead of the project. \u201cThen, we use those vulnerabilities to discover new avenues of attack. We\u2019ll detail these vulnerabilities and the exploit techniques that we developed.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team includes Ph.D. students Yeongjin Jang and Byoungyoung Lee, and research scientists Tielei Wang and Billy Lau.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Details of findings presented at Black Hat USA 2014"}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-08-11 16:47:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:52","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"314661":{"id":"314661","type":"image","title":"Researchers Jailbreak iOS 2014","body":null,"created":"1449244947","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:02:27","changed":"1475895022","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:22","alt":"Researchers Jailbreak iOS 2014","file":{"fid":"199912","name":"researchersjailbreakiosblackhatusa.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/researchersjailbreakiosblackhatusa_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/researchersjailbreakiosblackhatusa_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":131238,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/researchersjailbreakiosblackhatusa_0.jpeg?itok=jdTRnxIB"}}},"media_ids":["314661"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"99491","name":"Apple iOS"},{"id":"99501","name":"Black Hat USA"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESylvia Carson\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:scarson@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Escarson@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["scarson@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}