A security researcher claims to have discovered an expliot that could lead to jailbreaken iOS models released as recently as 2017. Just as significantly, checkm8 supposedly can’t be patched by Apple, ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. A new jailbreak ...

Threat actors are using the hype around the recently announced Checkm8 iOS jailbreak exploit to trick users into installing unwanted iOS apps on their devices. These apps aren't malicious per-se, but ...

For the last several years, so-called jailbreaks of iPhones—cracking iOS to let any software run on the device—have been exceedingly rare. When one appeared in August for iOS 12, it was surprising to ...

Not all of the best apps available for the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad are sold on the App Store. For jailbroken phones, there’s also Cydia, the equivalent of the App Store black market… and for those ...