An iOS 6 update may render the current jailbreak ineffective, App.net launches free accounts, two big prepaid carriers get LTE, and a Google patches a huge vulnerability.
- Apple Is Beta-Testing An Update That Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak According David Wang, one of the iOS hackers who wrote the evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 6, the beta for iOS 6.1.3 will patch at least one of the vulnerabilities that the evasi0n exploits in order to work. After 6.1.3, Wang stated that they may have to build a new jailbreak from scratch. Reports indicate that iOS 6.1.3 will also fix the passcode bug that's gone unpatched since 6.0.1 as well as the newly-discovered passcode bug in 6.1. [Forbes]
- App.net Introduces Free Tier, Invite-Only for Now, Includes Following 40 People App.net, the ad-free social network with a great privacy policy has just launched a free tier of service. Currently invite-only, the invitations will be distributed to current paying members and will allow free users to follow up to 40 accounts and provide 500MB of storage. [The Next Web]
- Virgin and Boost Add LTE Handsets to Their Pre-Paid Rosters Virgin and Boost Mobile will be getting their first LTE phones running on Sprint's 4G network. Virgin Mobile customers can purchase the Samsung Galaxy Victory starting today, while Boost users can buy the HTC One SV or the Boost Force beginning March 7th. [Engadget]
- Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication Last summer a vulnerability was found in Google's login process that allowed two-factor authentication to be completely bypassed. The exploit took advantage of how Google's application-specific passwords were set up to gain complete access to a victim's Google account. Google addressed the vulnerability last week, and you can read Duo Security's findings today.
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