iOS 4.3 Jailbreak Already Available

The iOS 4.3 SDK has only been available for one day and it’s already been jailbroken. A new version of the famous PwnageTool can now jailbreak iOS 4.3. This just solidifies the fact that Apple can’t patch the limera1n venerability that groups like the iPhone Dev Team and the Chrome Dev Team are using. The [...]

PSP GO FW 6.10 Hacked?

A video that has been flowing around the inter-tubes shows a PSP Go running firmware 6.10 running a Genesis Emulator. This can only mean that the Go’s 6.10 firmware has been hacked, no? According to PSP Hacks …. Good News! – Well Neon says it is and if this video is anything to go by [...]

Hacker Hacks Jailbroken iPhone

We all know the dangers of running a jailbroken iPhone. No tech support, the wrath of your carrier, and simple exploits as demonstrated by Dutch hacker. With a little bit of port scanning to find jailbroken iPhones with SSH running he sent users a message that read “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! [...]

Jailbreak Resistant iPhone

Reports are flying around the internets that Apple is now shipping iPhones with a new bootrom that is resistant to the 24kpwn exploit that was used by the iPhone Dev-Team to jailbreak the iPhone. To be really honest with you I’m surprised it took Apple this long. MuscleNerd, who is a Dev-Team member, has confirmed [...]

PSP Go Gets Patrially Owned

What’s the thing been out for? 4 or 5 days? and it already has been partially owned. This has to be a record somewhere. It looks like your typical save game exploit, but it also seems that it doesn’t allow enough access to the hardware yet to install something like custom firmware. If the great [...]

Linux Distros That Don’t Suck

I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]

The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole

Two security researches have demonstrated a technique that enables someone to intercept internet traffic on a massive scale using an exploit in the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol). The exploit allows an attacker to monitor unencrypted traffic anywhere in the world and even allows them to modify the packets before they get to [...]

GIFAR Image Vulnerability

Researchers at NGS Software have developed a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When the picture is viewed, the malicious code embed in the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook, Myspace, or Digg are particularly at risk, but the researches say that any site which [...]

Xbox Media Center Coming For The Mac?

For those of you who never toyed in the original Xbox hombrew sense Xbox Media Center was the end-all be-all of homebrew applications. It was originally created in 2002 and required either a hardware modchip or a software exploit on the Xbox to run. XBMC was the ultimate media center application on the Xbox and [...]

Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets

In this short video (after the break) Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing any audio to be captured or set to the device. Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is [...]

Archos SSH Access

UPDATE: My bad on the whole touch screen issue, what I was thinking was keyboard, but it came out as touch screen   Seems like some crafty hackers have found an exploit on the Archos 605. GFT, which stands for Go Fighting Tabby, will gain you root access on your Archos 605, 705, or 604. [...]

Microsoft kills Skype

Well not technically, Microsoft’s Windows Update caused a reboot of a substantial amount of Skype’s authentication servers. “Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.” — Skype Heartbeat Blog – [...]

Facebook source code leaked

Looks like someone has leaked out the source code for the Facebook main index page on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are really only two possible ways that this got out into the wild. The first is that it was leaked out by a developer, or the more likely option that there just might [...]

Learn to Hack

Every blog about security needs to post an article like this, as sort of a RTFM reference. Without further ado: First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched [...]