private and confidential data stored on the device. While most jailbreaks are encouraged to change their default root password, it still doesn’t make the jailbroken iOS devices secured as much as the non-jailbroken ones because of all the security protections that Apple has put in place.

A hacker named Stefan Esser has recently found a new method which he promises will jailbreak iOS devices with all the enhanced security mechanisms in place so that the jailbroken devices are secured just as much, if not more than the non-jailbroken devices. The new method uses ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) which has been absent from all the current iOS devices, making them vulnerable to attacks similar to the ones demonstrated at the Pwn2Own contest.

Stefan plans to unveil a new jailbreak tool called Antid0te which will automatically jailbreak and fortify the iOS devices with ASLR.

This enables users with jailbroken iPhones to create their own set of dyld_shared_cache files that have completely different library load addresses from every other iPhone in the world,” Esser wrote in an email. “This is already a better ASLR than what exists on Snow Leopard because different applications can use different shared caches and therefore different load addresses.

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[Source: ReadWriteWeb]

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