Hacked 1981 Canon AE-1 Program SLR comes with digital display
Check out that interesting modification of the Canon AE-1 Program SLR that hails all the way back from 1981 – it was originally designed to handle film back in the day, but that day round it is a digital shooter thanks to the brilliance and brains of a hacker. It would be nice to see [...]
Geohot introduced blackra1n for the iPad
iPhone firmware hacker George Hotz, better known by the moniker Geohot, has shown off that his his popular blackra1n iPhone jailbreaking software is now able to be loaded onto an iPad thanks to an accompanying Cydia package manager. that comes after Hotz posted encryption keys for the iPad 3.2 firmware sets, and it is only [...]
Hacker Gets OtherOS Feature Back On The PS3 After 3.21 Firmware Update
Sony has only released the PS3 3.21 firmware update a few days ago, and Geohot (the popular hacker) has already managed to hack the firmware, reinstating the removed “OtherOS” feature, which allows you to install another OS (duh). The hack can be done without having to crack open your PS3, and all you have to [...]
iPhone, Safari, IE8 and Firefox fail shield test
A non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and World Wide Web Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 were no match for shield analysts at the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest safety measure show, where none of them stood up to the tryout, having being hacked and fully compromised without even having physical [...]
Nokia N900 micro USB connector has problems
Nokia’s N900 might be on top of the list for many a hacker, but regardless of how well you can mod it physically or write cipher for it, you will still need to juice up the device from instance to duration. Unfortunately, there seems to be a common problem with the N900 which sees the [...]
Malicious iPhone Virus In Netherlands
We’ve seen Jailbroken iPhones that left SSH on with the default passwords get Rickrolled, and additionally “blackmailed”, though we’re fairly certain nobody really paid any money. Now it seems that a new virus, exploiting the same vulnerability, has surfaced in the Netherlands. It allows the hacker to remotely control and access the phone, making it [...]