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Russian hacker skirts around in-app purchases
9to5mac reports that a Russian hacker has devised a way to enable users to download in-app purchases from the iTunes App Store for free, all without requiring a device be jailbroken. The hack appears to have come from Russian developer ZonD80 who posted the above video demonstration. ZonD80 also appears to run a website called […]
Continue reading...How the FBI busted LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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In case you haven’t heard, the FBI on Tuesday announced the arrest of 5 LulzSec members, including Sabu – real name: Hector Monsegur – on multiple charges of computer hacking conspiracy. Here’s a fascinating look into how the FBI was able to capture one of the defendants, one Jeremy “anarchaos” Hammond. To identify sup_g, the Bureau […]
Continue reading...JailBreakMe author Comex conducts Q&A ahead of his Apple internship
Monday, August 29, 2011
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Last week we reported that Apple had hired famed jailbreaker Comex (real name: Nicholas Allegra) as an intern. Presumably, Apple’s iOS team was tired of having their iOS security handiwork continually hacked/bypassed (with increasing ease no less) by the 19 year old Allegra. Apparently, if you can’t beat em’, hire em’. Hell, Facebook and Microsoft […]
Continue reading...Apple hires famed JailBreakMe developer Comex as an intern
Friday, August 26, 2011
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Ever since the iPhone was released in 2007, Apple has been involved in a game of cat and mouse with iPhone jailbreakers. “We try to stay ahead,” Steve Jobs once said with respect to iPhone jailbreaking. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Over the past […]
Continue reading...Lion beefs up OS X security
Friday, August 12, 2011
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As Apple’s marketshare in the PC market continues to increase, the Mac platform is increasingly becoming a target for hackers. Serious attacks and threats remain few and far in between and there’s certainly no reason to sound any alarm bells, but as the Mac becomes more visible, Apple will have to stay a few steps […]
Continue reading...JailbreakMe creator Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, profiled by Forbes
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Shortly after the iPhone first debuted, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described attempts to keep jailbreakers at bay as a “constant cat and mouse game.” “We try to stay ahead,” Jobs said. “People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them from breaking in.” Since then, jailbreaking has evolved from users swapping […]
Continue reading...AirPlay Private Key uncovered
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Developer James Laird recently reverse engineered the AirPort express private key and released an open source AirPort Express emulator that allows third party hardware to stream music from iTunes and certain iPod models. My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it’d be easy […]
Continue reading...Safari owned by French security experts within 5 seconds at Pwn2Own hacker challenge
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Well that sure didn’t take long. Apple’s Safari browser was hacked within just 5 seconds of visiting a specific website at this year’s Pwn2Own hacker challenge. The victorious researchers were French security experts from the security firm VUPEN. The company was awarded $15,000 cash and can now lay claim to a new 13-inch MacBook Air.
Continue reading...FBI charges iPad hacker the “Weev” for accessing thousands of iPad user email addresses
Friday, January 28, 2011
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This past June, the FBI arrested a hacker named Andrew Auernheimer for publicizing a security exploit on AT&T’s servers and attaining 114,000 email addresses of iPad users in the process. When federal agents first burst into Auerheimer’s apartment armed with a search warrant, they found a smorgasbord of Ecstacy, LSD, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals. […]
Continue reading...Gawker media hacked over the weekend, passwords and source code exposed
Monday, December 13, 2010
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It’s been a trying day for Gawker Media which operates a number of popular websites such as LifeHacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, and Deadspin. This past weekend, hackers managed to seize control of Gawker Media’s entire database including staff conversations, FTP login info, source code, and more importantly, the passwords of both Gawker employees and folks who […]
Continue reading...Is Apple banning iPhone hackers from the iTunes App Store?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
For a company founded by 2 individuals who did their fair share of hacking, or phreaking to be more precise, Apple doesn’t take too kindly to iPhone jailbreakers. Like clockwork, every iPhone OS update seems to throw another monkey wrench into the efforts of jailbreakers, with many updates actually bricking the jailbroken phones themselves. Now […]
Continue reading...How a hacker used Hotmail to hack into Twitter
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Last week, it came to light that a large number of sensitive and internal Twitter documents had been compromised and sent to the tech news site TechCrunch. Over the course of a few days, TechCrunch selectively published a decent amount of moderately interesting information. But even more interesting than the content of the stolen information […]
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Friday, July 13, 2012
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