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Hacker Pod2g has continued to test out his latest exploits on all the iDevices he could lay his hands on, and he has successfully confirmed quite a few models that will work “for sure” with the as-of-yet unreleased hack. Actively testing his jailbreak for Apple’s latest iOS release, Pod2g is glad t... |
18 May 2012
09:11 GMT |
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After many people suspected that he was setting up his own downfall in order to raise money for himself, The Jester (th3j35t3r) came forward to prove them wrong. It all started when a Twitter user named Smedley Manning (@cubespherical) published a number of screenshots that allegedly proved that he knew the hacker&r... |
18 May 2012
07:28 GMT |
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Some iCloud registrants are beginning to notice spam email in their Sent folders, despite having nothing to do with the unsolicited messages ending up in their friends’ inboxes. They believe they’ve been hacked, and they have taken to Apple Support Communities to seek answers. AppleInsider points out to ... |
17 May 2012
10:23 GMT |
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A 21-year-old man from the United Kingdom has been sentenced to serve 12 months in jail after the Southwark Crown Court found him guilty of hacking into another individual’s Facebook and email account. The breach took place on January 12, 2012.
According to the Metropolitan Police, Gareth Crosskey pleaded gui... |
17 May 2012
08:31 GMT |
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After carrying out further tests on iDevices loaded with iOS 5.1.1, Chronic Dev Team’s Pod2g has confirmed untethered jailbreak support for the very first iPad models released by Apple.“iPad1,1 and iPad2,1 tested with iOS 5.1.1,” reads a tweet signed Pod2g. “Untethering worked,” he added... |
15 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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At the beginning of May, we reported that a number of Indian ISP started blocking their subscribers from accessing BitTorrent sites, and even Vimeo, just before the launch of a Bollywood motion picture. Many were discontent with the decision, but one of these individuals decided to do something about it. After seein... |
15 May 2012
04:52 GMT |
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A Twitter user called Smedley Manning (@cubespherical) has claimed that he is in the possession of the real identity of the controversial hacker known as “The Jester” (@th3j35t3r). While the mysterious Manning brings proof that Jester admits to be unmasked, some believe that this may actually be a clever ... |
15 May 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Pod2g seems keen to get 300K pulses rising today with a bunch of tweets regarding his progress on the iOS 5.1.1 front. His latest efforts have revealed that some iOS devices don’t yet support his vulnerability (despite earlier developments indicating that all of them were supported), but that the iPhone 4S is a... |
14 May 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Hacker extraordinaire Pod2g has confirmed plans to roll out his jailbreak for iOS 5.1.x iterations (and below) which reportedly works on “all” devices. That’s right, not only has Pod2g finally ceded to the community’s cries, but the hacker has managed to pull his jailbreak off on all iOS devi... |
14 May 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Infamous hacker Pod2g is teasing his 290K Twitter followers with a message regarding his latest jailbreak in which he claims to have no intentions to release a beta, and that his finalized jailbreak tool is weeks away from launch. Pod2g has recently posted a video demonstration of his latest achievements with iOS 5.... |
11 May 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Ever since the phone bomb attack TeaMp0isoN launched on the UK’s MI6 counter-terrorism organization, law enforcement representatives became determined to apprehend the culprits. Reports reveal that authorities have managed to arrest another member of the crew, MLT.
On April 12, they arrested the group’s ... |
11 May 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Chronic Dev Team leader Pod2g has released a video confirming his success in jailbreaking the latest iOS firmware on the latest Apple chip, untethered. Since the hacker was able to compromise iOS 5.1.1 on a third-generation iPad based on the A5X spec, all previous iDevices and firmwares are jailbreakable. Fans are b... |
11 May 2012
02:52 GMT |
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After thoughtfully running down all the info tied to iOS 5.1.1 and the possibility of jailbreaking, iPhone Dev-Team leader MuscleNerd acknowledged that Apple has learned about an unreleased method to downgrade A5 devices, but didn’t do anything about it.A problem faced by iDevice owners since the original iPhon... |
8 May 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Many iPhone owners have heard of George Hotz, or Geohot, as he is best known on the web. If you ask anyone even remotely interested in iPhone hacks, they’ll tell you he’s the guy who hacked Apple’s original iPhone to unlock it for use on multiple carriers.
The feat was impressive at the time Geohot... |
1 May 2012
09:33 GMT |
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iOS hacker Pod2g is happy to inform his 260K Twitter followers that he has made progress on two major fronts - kernel, and bootROM.
A recent tweet from Pod2g says “News: a productive week-end. Found 2 big vulnerabilities. 1 kernel land and 1 root land,” the latter being really important, as it will allow... |
1 May 2012
04:32 GMT |
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If last week we interviewed Janne Ahlberg, a white hat from Finland, this time we move our caravan to Russia, where we meet Sony. She is very passionate about security and her experience gained in the past couple of years helped her realize that there’s a very thin line between the responsible and irresponsibl... |
28 April 2012
08:01 GMT |
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After winning an appeal and being released from jail, 26-year-old Glenn Mangham, the individual accused of hacking into Facebook by using an employee’s credentials came forward and made a video statement and a blog post to explain his actions.
Initially convicted to 8 months in prison, the Court of Appeal in L... |
27 April 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Pod2g is asking his followers to cast their vote and answer the following question: “Shall we hold off the jailbreak for iOS 6?” A few days ago, the internationally-known hacker going by the Twitter handle @Pod2g said in a tweet that he was not rushing his jailbreak out. iDevice owners desperately want t... |
26 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Apparently fed up with all the nagging from the iOS community, hacker Pod2g is giving his ETA for the upcoming iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak: “no clue!”The latest tweet from the Internationally-known hacker reads: “ETA for 5.1 JB: no clue! We're going to set pieces of the puzzle together this we... |
24 April 2012
04:57 GMT |
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A 31-year-old Russian has been charged by US authorities on suspicion of running a scheme that involved breaching retail brokerage accounts and sham trades. The illegal activities caused damages of around $1 million (700,000 EUR). Petr Murmylyuk, also known as Dmitry Tokar, from New York, demonstrated that hacking a... |
19 April 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Austrian authorities have identified a 15-year-old boy whom they believe to be responsible for hacking into the systems of 259 companies from various industries, the list of victims including tourism, sports, adult and even search engine sites.
According to Kurier, the boy is known on the hacking scene as ACKI3STX a... |
14 April 2012
06:43 GMT |
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26-year-old Glenn Steven Mangham managed to convince three senior judges from the Court of Appeal in London that he broke into Facebook systems only to highlight security holes, without any ill-intentions. He was sent to jail after, in April and May 2007, he managed to steal the credentials of a Facebook employee, w... |
5 April 2012
10:38 GMT |
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The FBI arrested another hacker. This time it’s Higinio Ochoa, from Texas, known on the hacking scene as w0rmer, or higochoa, part of the infamous CabinCr3w collective, whose members are responsible for breaching the sites of US law enforcement agencies, and for publishing the details (doxing) of numerous US of... |
5 April 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Edward Pearson, the 23-year-old hacker that stole the personal details of around 8 million individuals by using the infamous Zeus, SpyEye and a program he made himself, was sentenced to two and a half years in jail.
The Daily Mail reports that Pearson’s lawyer said his client wasn’t hacking for the finan... |
3 April 2012
09:19 GMT |
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The European Parliament (EP) decided to upgrade the current legislation on cyberattacks. The new law would turn cyberattacks, and the possession and distribution of hacking tools into a criminal offense in all the European Union.
The proposal was approved with 50 votes in favor and, if it becomes law, hackers who br... |
29 March 2012
07:42 GMT |
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By now, many internauts and security enthusiasts are aware of the fact that the LulzSec gang is back. Operating under the name LulzSec Reborn, the hackers have already made a couple of victims: Military Singles and CSS Corp. It turns out that after Sabu and the other LulzSec members were arrested, some hackers decid... |
28 March 2012
11:16 GMT |
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Krishna Sagar talking to the people at iDownload Blog is offering an interesting look at some code inside iOS 5.1, indicating that Apple’s next iPhone should be LTE capable. Using a jailbroken iPhone, the latest iOS 5.1 build, and a file exploring app (iFile), Krishna was able to find code strings indicating 4... |
23 March 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Many website owners are unaware that Google Analytics and other traffic monitoring tools don’t take into consideration the “non-human” visitors. The most worrying part of this observation is that the 51% of the traffic is not seen in reports and it can be represented by hackers, bots and other spyin... |
19 March 2012
04:16 GMT |
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German security researcher Stefan Esser has done it again! The hacking guru has managed to achieve an untethered jailbreak of the third-generation iPad running iOS 5.1.
After seeing that another prominent hacker had posted evidence of an iPad 3 jailbreak on the web, the (seemingly) competitive Esser issued the follo... |
17 March 2012
07:57 GMT |
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iOS hacker and security researcher Stefan Esser has managed to jailbreak iOS 5.1 on the A5-based iPad 2, according to a number of photos posted by the coding guru on his Twitter stream.
Esser (who uses @i0n1c as his Twitter handle) had been waiting for his third-generation iPad to arrive but apparently the delivery ... |
16 March 2012
04:26 GMT |
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A number of six individuals suspected of being somehow involved in the News of the World (NotW) phone-hacking scandal have been detained and questioned by the Metropolitan Police as part of Operation Weeting.
Five men and one woman, aged between 38 and 49, were arrested yesterday morning sometime around 5AM - 7AM at... |
14 March 2012
12:19 GMT |
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Website administrators who fear that their assets may be targeted by hackers can now turn to 6Scan, a plugin prepackaged for common web frameworks that secures a site against destruction, data theft, defacements, and more. 6Scan comes with three plans: Watchtower, Fortress, and Enterprise. The first is completely fr... |
28 February 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Operation Tuleta, the operation launched by the Scotland Yard with the purpose of apprehending computer hackers, continues with the arrest of two journalists. The two men are suspected of hacking, but their illegal activities have nothing to do with journalism.
The Daily Mail reports that the suspects were taken int... |
27 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Hackers around the world, the interview series in which we talk to hackers worldwide trying to find out what makes them tick, continues with a hacker from China. More specifically, 7z1, a member of Evil Shadow is one of the hackers that breached the Microsoft Store, or Microsoft Mall (as they call it), in India. He ... |
25 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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The scandal that formed around the defunct News of the World (NotW) led to an investigation that revealed a lot of interesting details about how the journalists obtained their information.
But so far no one knew the identity of the hackers that aided the media organization to gain access to the victims’ priva... |
21 February 2012
08:36 GMT |
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A young couple, arrested last year by the North Yorkshire police, admitted to a £350,000 ($553,000 or 416,000 EUR) fraud scheme that involved the personal details of 8 million individuals and the credit card details of 400. According to the Daily Mail, 23-year-old Edward Pearson was the mastermind of this sch... |
21 February 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Robert Butyka, the 26-year old Romanian hacker known as Iceman, famous for breaching into several NASA-owned servers, was indicted by US prosecutors after Romanian courts sentenced him to three years in prison.
According to Antena3, LA prosecutors want the hacker to face another trial in Los Angeles, where he is cha... |
10 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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CNN is running a story on account hacking in iTunes and how Apple has failed to address the matter over the years. A security researcher suggests there's a good chance Apple isn't even trying to fix the problem. The report highlights a few complaints from Apple forum posters, such as this one from a user i... |
7 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Hackers around the world moves on with SEPO, an Eastern European hacker that considers himself to be a gray hat that turns into a black hat if corrupt companies, governments, or Anonymous targets are involved. He is known for targeting major African and Middle Eastern companies and financial institutions such as the ... |
5 February 2012
08:46 GMT |
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As promised, we return with more information on the story of the famous grey hat hacker TinKode, who is apparently a 20-year old student that didn’t spend too much time in class and even failed IT Fundamentals, the only exam he attended. According to a statement of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating O... |
1 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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TinKode, the famous grey hat, was arrested today in Romania by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), being accused of hacking into some major US websites.
His real name is Manole Răzvan Cernăianu, but for most people in the world he’s known as TinKode, the hacker that manage... |
31 January 2012
11:23 GMT |
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Our Hackers around the world series featured a great interview the other day with 13-year-old Australian hacker s3rver.exe, and after hearing his story, we concluded that he may be the youngest hacker in the world, without counting the ones that consider themselves ethical hackers.
For those who don’t know, s3... |
30 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a man from Latvia after suspecting him of running an online fraud scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq securities, causing a total loss of $2 million (1.4 million EUR).
According to a SEC press release, t... |
30 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Three apparently “very bright kids”, students at the Palos Verdes High School in California, were arrested after being suspected of hacking into their teachers’ computers to change grades. Besides computer hacking, they’re also accused of breaking into the school at night to steal physical cop... |
28 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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After in May 2011 the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) revealed the fact that an Online Blue Army had been established with the purpose of improving China’s ability to defend its military networks, now it seems that the project is taking shape. According to ECNS, the country’s military experts claim ... |
20 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Researchers came across an Argentinian veterinary supplier website that had been compromised and exploited to the maximum by cybercriminals.
Kaspersky Lab experts found that not only was it redesigned to spread malicious Brazilian Trojans that targeted bank accounts, but it may also have been probed by a Russian hac... |
18 January 2012
09:50 GMT |
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An Indonesian hacker that goes by the name Direxer, part of the Code Security forum, breached the security of more than 100 websites belonging to the government of Kenya, defacing them to prove their lack of protection.
According to Daily Nation, the list of victim sites includes the ones of the ministries of Educa... |
18 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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After admitting that the Indian hacker called YamaTough managed to obtain the source code for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, the company came forward with another statement to say that the source code for some of their Norton products was leaked as a result of a hacking operation that ... |
18 January 2012
03:04 GMT |
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A few days ago we’ve heard of a complaint being filled at a California court in which Symantec was accused of commercializing useless products that scare consumers into thinking their computers were full of errors. After hearing about the case, the Indian hacker Yama Tough published the Norton Utilities source ... |
14 January 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Members of Teamgreyhat (TGH) managed to breach the website of India’s most famous self-proclaimed ethical hacker, Ankit Fadia. Ankit Fadia offers Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker (AFCEH) certificates to those who take his courses on ethical hacking, where he gives lectures on security tools, techniques and... |
10 January 2012
11:44 GMT |
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