Cast your minds back a few years to 2010, when a major security flaw was exposed on AT&T, which left thousands of email addresses unprotected and liable to leak. The man behind exposing the security flaw was one Andrew Auernheimer, who went under the aliases Weev and Escher — and was then … [Read more...]
The hacker group AntiSec has released an enormous log of UDIDs from Apple devices, allegedly gathered from an FBI laptop. There are 1,000,001 devices in the log, and while some information has been removed, there's an awful lot of personal details. Apparently, this comes from a much larger pool of … [Read more...]
Late June saw an iPad hacker plead guilty to the massive AT&T data breach from a year ago, and a second man has just been found guilty. Andrew Auernheimer, who was previously arrested on drug charges after revealing the a security hole at AT&T rather than exploiting it. Auernheimer, aka … [Read more...]
In the wake of iOS falling rather quickly at Pwn2Own, Apple has allegedly promised a fix. Charlie Miller, the man who executed the hack, tweeted this: Me and @dionthegod won pwn2own for iPhone, yippee. Apple already has the vulnerability information and will patch soon. Assuming Miller is right, … [Read more...]
If you use the Citi Mobile app for any of your banking, you might want to update. Right now. Citigroup have just admitted that there was a security flaw in the older versions, which stored your account numbers, bill payments, and security access codes to a hidden file on the iPhone. This file may … [Read more...]
No surprises here, less than a week after release, the Dev Team are already jailbreaking the iPhone 4. It appears the vulnerability used during the Spirit jailbreak still works, and a some hackers have achieved root access to the phone. However, we don't know how soon it will be landing, as there … [Read more...]
Geohot, the infamous hacker who first got into the iPhone and the PS3 was speaking at the Nuit Du Hack hacker's conference in Paris. Word is that he's discovered a new bootrom exploit, which would "pwn" (aka jailbreak) any iPhone for life — including the upcoming iPhone 4. He's going to call it … [Read more...]
So, there was a massive leak in iPad security on AT&T's website, exposing thousands of email adresses. A hacker group found the exploit, and instead of being evil, waited until it was patched, and then contacted a journalist to expose the flaw. AT&T then blamed the hacker for their own … [Read more...]
Again and again, the people behind jailbreaking the iPhone have proved themselves able to push the device far beyond what it's meant to do. Now, it looks like they've done the impossible: having Flash run on the iPhone. This "very preliminary" (and rather blurry) video shows the iPhone running full … [Read more...]
With the leak of thousands of email addresses of iPhone users, AT&T is in some pretty hot water, and have sent out an email to 3G iPad owners. Apologizing for the leak, the email from Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and chief privacy officer at AT&T stated that only the email and … [Read more...]
