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 December 7th, 2011 by lhaas
Following up on our earlier post, the researchers who successfully jailbroke the RIM PlayBook have posted detailed instructions on how it can be done:
One of the researchers, known as Neuralic, posted the walkthrough to Pastie.org Tuesday morning. In order to begin the process, a PlayBook user need to first install the beta [...]
October 31st, 2011 by lhaas
Though not ready for public release, hackers have reportedly been able to bring Siri onto jailbroken iPhone 4′s and 4th-generation iPod touches.
Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith and Grant Paul @chpwn publicized the hack via Twitter late Saturday. The tweak requires that devices first undergo a jailbreak, the procedure for hacking an iPhone to run [...]
March 17th, 2011 by lhaas
“The openness of the Android operating system and the fact that it is based on Linux means that a large cadre of operating-system hackers can attempt to find vulnerabilities in the system.”
In 2009, Red Hat, SuSE, and other Linux distributors fixed a major flaw that could have allowed any user to escalate [...]
February 10th, 2011 by lhaas
iPhones and iPads can reveal your password even if they are passcode protected:
Losing your iPhone or iPad equals having your passwords compromised – even if the device is protected with a passcode.
The results of an experiment conducted by Jens Heider and Matthias Boll, two researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure [...]
October 28th, 2010 by lhaas
Another example of the potential security threats faced by iPhone users. The presenter, Eric Monti, hoped that his presentation would serve as a wake-up call to users with a false sense of security about their devices.
The success of a group of hackers in compromising the security of Apple’s iPhone may set the [...]
March 18th, 2010 by lhaas
Is your mobile phone spying on you? Are your employees’ phones? Companies can spend millions of dollars in protection only to have an employee walk in with a jailbroken phone infected with a botnet capable of actively recording everything that employee is doing. And because it’s working over the mobile network, all of [...]
February 6th, 2009 by ahoog
Apple released the latest version of iPhone firmware yesterday. 2.2.1 does not appear to contain major updates but seems to cause problems with previously jailbroken phones. ZDNet Blog has a nice entry describing the update, lamenting the lack of progress in key areas (i.e. cut and paste) and makes a good point that [...]
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