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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Software

New Version of Pwnage Arrives as Apple Tightens Security

7:02AM Jesus Diaz | We told you that the new Pwnage—the iPhone Dev Team tool to automatically hack legal Apple firmwares to free iPhone by making them fully customisable, open and unlocked—version was imminent and here it is. Gizmodo got early access to the software and it works great. But there is bad news brewing up: Apple is gearing up to battle the hackers big time. More »
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Software

Adobe Knew of Vista PWN 2 OWN Hack All Along

6:30AM Haroon Malik | The PWN 2OWN contest, as we all know, saw the Mac OS X weed crumble first, with Vista following soon after. Ubuntu was the only OS that was impenetrable to attack, but news is surfacing that Vista should have had a longer lifeline, if only Adobe had patched the flaw they knew about all along. More »
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Phones

Pwnage iPhone Unlocking and Hacking Tool Now Available, Works Great

7:21PM Jesus Diaz | After some delays, the iPhone Pwnage tool—which is used to flash your iPhone with hacked firmware that will allow you to run any application, use it unlocked in any compatible mobile phone network, and basically do whatever you want do to with it, is now available for download. I have been testing this and previous versions for a few weeks now and it works well, but you will need a 2.0 version of the iPhone firmware to try the latest and greatest. More »
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Software

T Pities Fool Who Bids on Hacked Fujitsu U810 With Live Virus “Still Present”

12:15AM Wilson Rothman | Shane Macaulay, the hacker who beat a Vista-powered Fujitsu in last week’s CanSec West PWN 2 OWN contest has listed the UMPC—with virus “still likely present”—on eBay. Some say this might be Macaulay’s idea of a joke, but T doesn’t think it’s funny when hackers joke around with exploits, especially an Adobe Flash exploit that might “affect 90 percent of computers worldwide.” Mac’s alleged rationale: More »
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Software

iPhone Pwnage Tool to Be Released Tomorrow Someday

2:00PM Haroon Malik | The iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage tool is set for public release tomorrow. The tool allows you to upgrade any iPhone with the latest firmware from Apple, modified to make it work with any compatible carrier in any part of the world, and install any application, as well as adding custom payloads, additional software like SSH, FTP, and other applications. Update: Due to legalities the Pwnage tool has been delayed. We’ll keep you updated with any release information as we get it. [iPhone Dev Team] More »
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Latest iPhone 2.0 Firmware Unlocked Again in 24 Hours

1:24AM Jesus Diaz | The iPhone Dev Team has demonstrated that Apple will probably have a very difficult time patching the iPhone to thwart their efforts: not even 24 hours after the release of the latest update for the iPhone firmware 1.2.0 (or 2.0, as The Steve calls it,) they sent us this picture showing that they have pwned it again, getting it to work completely unlocked, and run all applications. As they told us: “Apple will not really be able to patch it this time.” Check the new Contacts application, which was in the Touch and seems to have been revealed in this latest revision. More pictures after the jump. More »
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