Keynote: What's in a Jailbreak? Hacking the iPhone: 2014 -> 2019

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Presented at BSidesCanberra 2019 by

Mark Dowd

The iPhone is one of the most secure commercially available devices today. Apple has aggressively pursued hardware and software solutions to pre and post-exploitation security weaknesses to prevent all but the most determined attacker's from getting complete access to the device and the personal data it contains. This talk will be a tour of the last 5 years worth of major security enhancements - both in software and in hardware, and talk about the evolving complexity involved in developing a full-featured "jailbreak". The talk will consider the impact of various mitigations on both remote access (browser or no-click) and local access (USB-based) vectors, as well as discussing post-exploitation challenges, which in some cases are just as formidable as exploitation itself.