April 16th, 2010

Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces, giving homebrew developers full access to the hardware, access that otherwise lay behind the XNA development kit. The Zune HD isn’t too shabby, so I fully expect to see ports of popular emulators like FCEUX in no time at all. → Read More

March 25th, 2010

iPhone falls to hackers, all SMSes compromised

Need to read what your loverly wife is sexting to the neighbor? It’s apparently quite easy. Some hackers – Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann – sent an iPhone user to a special site that was able to steal the phone’s entire SMS library in one swoop, winning the Pwn2Own challenge. → Read More

December 18th, 2009

Twitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy

Late last night the popular micro-messaging service Twitter was attacked and had its website defaced by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The Twitter homepage and the main application service page were replaced with a bold pro-Iranian and anti-American message. The message was loud, and very clear – the attack was in response to what Iran saw as internal meddling by the west during… → Read More

December 3rd, 2007

IPSF unlocked iFones now works with 1.1.2, here's how

Let’s say you have an iFones that was unlocked with iPhoneSimFree. And let’s say you tried jailbreaking when 1.1.2 came out, but you failed miserably. Well, now you can get that sucka working. Courtesy of Jesus over at the Giz. → Read More

September 27th, 2007

Update Bricks Hacked iPhones, Kills Kittens

Possible results of updating your iPhone. Over the past few weeks Apple’s stance on hacked and modified iPhone software has drastically shifted from “do as you please” to a full on blow to the nuts earlier today. Although the iTunes WiFi music store is included in the update, users are reporting SIM errors when the device is used with anything other than AT&T. There are some… → Read More