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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.
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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
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"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
Turning "cat readme.txt" into arbitrary code execution in iTerm2.
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Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
We gave Codex a foothold. It popped a root shell.