Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreak Is What's Wrong with iOS

25.05.2012

Andrew Storms, director of security operations for , offers an alternate perspective. Storms suggests that devices that aren't jailbroken come with their own unique security concerns.

Storms says, "The real security risk is the false sense of security users get from vendor approved app stores. These stores create a false sense of safety so users drop their guard. Losing a healthy sense of paranoia is the first step to being phished."

At least Absinthe 2.0 takes some conscious intent and user interaction to jailbreak an iOS device. However, there have been jailbreaks in the past that could root iOS just by visiting a website. A malicious developer could like to root a device with a simple phishing attack, and potentially install malicious apps without the user's knowledge.

Brian Duckering, Senior Manager for Enterprise Mobility Group, cautions, "There is likely not much an enterprise can do to prevent a user from jailbreaking an iPhone, but there are tools--such as MDM [Mobile Device Management] and MAM [Mobile Application Management]--that can help organizations prevent jailbroken devices from connecting to corporate resources."