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The Pwnie Awards Coming Up on Wednesday, Two iOS Jailbreaks Listed as Nominees

evasi0n iOS 7.0 jailbreak and Pangu iOS 7.1 jailbreak may win one of the big prizes

Aug 5, 2014 20:30 GMT  ·  By
The Pwnie Awards 2014
   The Pwnie Awards 2014
The Jailbreak community had a poor year. Only two exploits for iOS have been developed and the fight with Apple seems like it is slowing down. evasi0n and Pangu Jailbreak methods are some of the stars for this year’s Pwnie Awards.
 
The event nominees list was announced from August 3 to August 5, and the Awards will be given away on Wednesday, August 6 at the BlackHat USA Conference in Las Vegas. The organizers accepted entries from the bugs disclosed from July 1, 2013, to June, 30, 2014. 
 
There are eight different categories for 2014: Pwnie for best server-side bug, Pwnie for best client-side bug, Pwnie for best privilege escalation bug, Pwnie for most innovative research, Pwnie for lamest vendor response, Pwnie for best song, Pwnie for most epic fail and the Pwnie for epic 0wnage. 
 
Among these, there are a few Apple references related to iOS and Safari. However, the most important ones are the latest Jailbreak methods. 
 
evasi0n iOS 7.0 jailbreak is credited to evad3rs team. They are nominated for the second year in a row for finding a good exploit that blew past Apple's security. This time, evad3rs chained four exploits to defeat code signing and exploit the iOS kernel. 
 
evasi0n was the tool that could jailbreak your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 7.0 up to 7.0.6. The developers have released seven updates so far to support different iOS versions and remove the bugs. evasi0n was the perfect tool because it could run on a PC running Windows XP or newer and on a Mac running OS X 10.7 or newer, so basically all users were covered. 
 
Pangu iOS 7.1 Jailbreak made the list. For this one, the credits go to Pangu and Stefan Esser. This new team was formed in 2014 and they made it big with a jailbreak for iOS 7.1 when nobody was expecting one. According to the description provided by Esser, tracing the origin of the bugs is difficult because Esser himself claimed that parts of the jailbreak were taken from his iOS training class. Somebody else may have stumbled upon the same bugs. Esser said about the bug that if you find one and disclose it to a single person, it is probably going to be leaked. 
 
Pangu jailbreak was an easy-to-use solution as well. The software could run on a Windows XP machine as well as on a Mac with OS X 10.8. This was the first real jailbreak tool originating from China so the tool originally had a Chinese language menu and it only came out in English along with the 1.1 version.