

The latest jailbreaking hack was revealed Friday, the same day Apple issued a security update repairing a critical PDF flaw in the mobile Safari browser that left devices, such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, running on its iOS, susceptible to attack.

“No matter how annoying it may sound, it’s better than having no jailbreak at all,” Ghani said. Thus far the jailbreak is tethered, indicating that users will need to reboot their iOS device by physically connecting it to their computer in order to maintain the jailbroken state. And thankfully, we have cooked custom PwnageTool bundles which allows you to jailbreak any device (except for iPad 2) running iOS 4.3.4, and at the same time preserve your baseband for an Ultrasn0w unlock later on,” said Redmond Pie’s Uzair Ghani in a blog post. “Apple has just pushed out iOS 4.3.4 for the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch. Jailbreaking allows users to circumvent security mechanisms in Apple’s mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads running iOS, to run applications not authorized by Apple’s App Store. However, one mitigating factor is that the jailbreak hack does not apply to the iPad 2.

Hackers at Redmond Pie outlined details of the Pwn tool allowing users to jailbreak the latest iOS, version 4.3.4.
