Organizers awarding Pwnie nominated for two jailbreak. Honorary Prize for escalating privileges to create the exploit can give developers tools Evasi0n and Pangu . Hackers managed to circumvent the protection that Apple has implemented in the operating system iOS 7.
Evasi0n7 exploit for iOS 7-7.0.4 released late last year - almost four months after the release of the seventh edition of the operating system Apple. Solution presented hacker group Evad3rs, which includes four Developer - MuscleNerd, pod2g and pimskeks and Planetbeing.
"Second year in a row the team Evad3rs Award nomination for creating the jailbreak for iOS. This time they combined four vulnerabilities to bypass signature code and hack the core of iOS ».
For the release of the second jailbreak for iOS 7.1-7.1.2, responsible team of Chinese hackers Pangu. Exploit them compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available on Windows computers and Mac OS X. With the help of a software tool Pangu can perform jailbreak smartphones and tablets on the current version of iOS 7. For their solutions they used developments hacker Stefan «i0nic» Esser .
"What could be better than a jailbreak for iOS? Two jailbreak for iOS. This team came to jailbreak scene in 2014 with a new exploit for iOS 7.1. Identify the author's vulnerability is difficult, since, according to Stefan Esser in Pangu used part of its code. The lesson to be learned all hackers: if you opened someone their vulnerability, even one person, very soon will know about it all. "
Award winners will be announced at a special ceremony in Las Vegas on Wednesday, August 6. Last year the award Pwnie Awards received David Wong (Planetbeing) - one of the founders Evasi0n.