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  2. George Hotz - Wikipedia

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    George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, [1] and software engineer.He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, [2] [3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony.

  3. XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia

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    In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan". [ b ] [ 4 ] The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific Ed448 private key remote code execution capabilities on the affected Linux system.

  4. Twelve Sky - Wikipedia

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    Characters in the same guild have a private chat channel, a shared guild name, guild storage and possibly battle in duels. Much Twelve Sky play involves questing, which through much of the game's story is told. Some quests are linked by a common theme, with the next quest triggered by the completion of the previous, forming a quest chain.

  5. iOS jailbreaking - Wikipedia

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    iOS jailbreaking is the use of a privilege escalation exploit to remove software restrictions imposed by Apple on devices running iOS and iOS-based [a] operating systems. It is typically done through a series of kernel patches.

  6. Softmod - Wikipedia

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    The exFAT filesystem kernel exploit that led to the 9.00 jailbreak [21] also affected PS5 firmware up to 4.03, however due to additional protections on the PS5 it is not possible to use this to softmod the PS5. The PPPoE kernel exploit that led to the PS4 11.00 jailbreak [22] also affected PS5 firmware up to 8.20, and is not known to softmod ...

  7. Privilege escalation - Wikipedia

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    In computer security, jailbreaking is defined as the act of removing limitations that a vendor attempted to hard-code into its software or services. [2] A common example is the use of toolsets to break out of a chroot or jail in UNIX-like operating systems [3] or bypassing digital rights management (DRM).

  8. Virtual private server - Wikipedia

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    A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. [1] The term "virtual dedicated server" (VDS) has a similar meaning.A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.

  9. PeerBlock - Wikipedia

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    PeerBlock is a free and open-source personal firewall that blocks packets coming from, or going to, a maintained list of blacklisted hosts. [2] PeerBlock is the Windows successor to the software PeerGuardian (which is currently maintained only for Linux). [3]