Apple develops full fix for PDF-based security flaw

on 08/04/2010 20:51 PDT

Remember the PDF-based security flaw that hounded iOS-powered devices at least for a while? Apple is quick to counter this flaw, where they managed to come up with a full fix. The security vulnerability itself was a pretty hot topic ever since Jailbreakme.com was released to everyone over the weekend, where this quick and easy jailbreak relies on a flaw in the iOS’s handling of PDFs in order to install jailbreak files. According to an Apple spokeswoman, “We’re aware of this reported issue, we have already developed a fix and it will be available to customers in an upcoming software update.” It is likely that iOS 4.1 will feature this fix.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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