hackers

News.blog: AT&T to sell 3G iPhone at $200 discount?

News Presumably, AT&T's might come with the glossy black plastic chassis reported by Engadget with some sort of changes to the hardware (perhaps making it thicker) and software to close the loopholes exploited by iPhone hackers.

Tags: stores, model, demand, iphone

30 April 2008, 10:39

News.blog: Hackers 'jailbreak' iPhone 2.0

News It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said on Tuesday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone's bootloader by taking...

Tags: apple, released, memory, iphone

13 March 2008, 9:30

Home Office laptop 'sold on eBay'

News However, encryption alone is not infallible -- computer hackers are determined individuals with the potential to crack one layer of security. The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data...

Tags: keyboard, laptop, disc, encrypted

29 February 2008, 9:06

YouTube back on in Pakistan

News We are not hackers. The ban was reportedly imposed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority PTA) on Sunday in response both to a film preview by Dutch MP Geert Wilders, which some Muslims may have found offensive, and in reaction to protests...

Tags: traffic, protocol, youtube, protocols

28 February 2008, 9:13

Hackers to test OS vulnerability

News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The contest is being run by the organisers of the CanSecWest security conference as a repeat of 2007...

Tags: laptops, linux, operating systems, macbook

8 February 2008, 9:17

Skype reveals cause of outage

News Skype was keen to say that the outage was not the work of hackers or any other malicious activity, and it claimed that its users' security "was not, at any point, at risk". Skype has fixed a software bug that made the Internet telephony service...

21 August 2007, 9:56

Spammers phish for iPhone victims

News As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in US stores, spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking that they have won an iPhone of their own.

3 July 2007, 10:51

News.blog: Windows Safari tops 1 million downloads

News Cynical colleagues at CNET wonder how many of those downloads were started by hackers and security professionals probing for weaknesses, which is probably a fair point. Safari was an early hit with Windows users, who have downloaded 1 million...

15 June 2007, 9:43

Wozniak fires up crowd at Maker Faire

News That concept might draw a groan at a lot of gatherings, but at Maker Faire, it was just the right message for a crowd thick with accomplished engineers and hackers, as well as countless budding would-be Wozes.

21 May 2007, 10:32

Microsoft confirms Vista hack

News According to a post by Microsoft senior product manager Alex Kochis on the Windows Genuine Advantage developers' blog, Microsoft has identified two ways in which hackers have broken the product activation security feature on original equipment...

13 April 2007, 10:28

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News When the players visit the sites -- which are often unrelated to WoW, but that players frequent, Thompson said -- the software is quietly installed on their computers, allowing the hackers to spy on keystrokes and steal players' WoW passwords.

11 April 2007, 11:20

Microsoft patch stops Linux on Xbox 360

News Hackers had discovered a way to break through the shield and run their own software, including operating systems such as Linux, on the games console. The challenge for hackers is to circumvent protections on the devices to run their own, so-called...

6 March 2007, 9:42

What is your Wi-Fi saying about you?

News Hackers have also cracked basic Wi-Fi security, so secured networks can't provide a security guarantee. Soon after a computer powers up, it starts looking for wireless networks and network services. Even if the wireless hardware is then shut-off, a...

2 March 2007, 9:24

Experts: Don't buy Vista for security

News Also, Microsoft challenged hackers to break Vista before its release. Kaminsky was among about two dozen hackers asked by Microsoft to try to hack Vista. The software giant promotes the new operating system as the most secure version of Windows yet.

31 January 2007, 10:14

Met call for cybercrime-busting unit

News Few UK virus writers and hackers have been prosecuted. Hackers and virus writers have evolved from largely enthusiastic amateur 'criminals' to financially motivated, organised global criminal enterprises.

26 January 2007, 9:21