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Heat Hacking: Criminals Can Steal Your ATM PIN Code Via the Heat Your Fingers Leave Behind

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:00:16 +0000

The PIN digits you punch into an ATM’s keypad to authenticate your transactions are leaving traces of themselves behind in the form of heat, says a paper recently presented by a team of UC San Diego security researchers. Someone following immediatel...

Kinect Hack Makes Last Week’s April Fool Prank Gmail Motion A Reality

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:02:03 +0000

Google got us good on Friday with their “Gmail Motion” April Fool’s joke, in which awkward businessmen perform calisthenics in front of a Kinect-esque motion sensor to reply to emails. While most of us just laughed, some hackers decided to make ...

The History of the Teardown: The Need to See Our Gear Undressed

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000

The documented teardown has become a necessary part of any gadget's release. But why do we feel this need to take our gear apart? It has become inevitable. A day or two after a high-profile gadget hits stores, two stories pop up on the gadget blogs, t...

Video: Android App Hacks Into Cardkey-Protected Doors With One Click

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:36:15 +0000

White-hat hackers (that's the good, helpful kind) Michael Gough and Ian Robertson have created an Android app that's capable of breaking into the very popular cardkey-type door locks with a single click. It's not foolproof, since it requires some info...

Anonymous Activist Hackers Attack Wikileaks’s Enemies, Bring Down MasterCard.com

admin — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:50:05 +0000

"Anonymous," a group of hackers perhaps best known for their attacks on the Church of Scientology, have appointed themselves the protectors of Wikileaks. To that end, they've begun a full-scale attack on those who have harmed Wikileaks in the past. Th...

Hacker jailbreaks the iPad less than a day after release

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:34:25 +0000

A lot of people complained about the iPad’s closed-off software. But no one did anything about it — until now, apparently.

A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple’s restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to have hacked the iPad. Just a day after release, the hacker, who goes by “MuscleNerd” online, said that he has gained root access to the iPad, a process known as “jailbreaking.”

“Jailbreaking” is a technical term which refers literally to limits on software placed on an operating system and more figuratively to the feelings developers have about such restrictions. An Apple device that’s been “jailbroken” can run any code, not just company-approved software available through its online stores. But such jailbreaking is a violation of Apple’s terms of service, which may mean Apple Stores will refuse to fix broken devices.

The iPad jailbreak technique is similar to an exploit of the iPhone operating system known as “Spirit.” Hackers have shown time after time that they can break into Apple’s security software for new iPhones, often within a day of release. One motivation: getting access to pirated software. It’s not known how much piracy happens as a result of jailbreaking, but it’s believed to be considerable.

Here’s MuscleNerd’s account:

Tags: hacking, ipad, jailbreaking, piracy

Companies: Apple

People: MuscleNerd

Basics of Hacking

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:33:05 +0000

Any computer user can become a hacker within a couple of hours. There are hacking tools, such as IntelliTamper 2.07, Trojan horse, Backdoor.IRC.ColdLife.30, John The Ripper 1.0, NMap Win 1.2.12, etc. along with instructions, available for free in the internet. But remember, the path to become a certified ethical hacker isn't easy. The act of [...]