Apple must be pleased about this news. They haven’t become tired in telling the people that jailbreaking the iPhone seriously compromises user security. And now a worm developed by Ashley Towns from down under is nothing else but attacking jailbroken iPhones whose Secure Shell has not been disabled or where the default root password (“alpine”) [...]
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[Pre] UK’s O2 Palm Pre Unlocked using RebelSIM?
November 4th, 2009 
J. Epstein A video appeared showing that SIM locked Palm Pre’s from the UK seems to have been unlocked using a proxy SIM solution called RebelSIM. There is no further detailed information about if this is a safe unlock like with the proxy SIMs for the first gen iPhones or i RebelSIM cards use IMSI fake IDs. [...]
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Tags: baseband, British, carrier lock, England, Great Britain, Hack, iPhone Dev Team, Keyboard, Lock, O2, Palm Pre, Proxy SIM, Rebel SIM, RebelSIM, Scottland, Telefonica, Unlock 
1 Comment »[iPhone] GeoHot Announces Latest Baseband Unlock
November 1st, 2009 H. Frahm George Hotz – by now almost any iPhone user should know that guy – hacked the latest baseband firmware 05.11.07. The unlock will be named BlackSn0w, well … That means all carrier or SIM locked iPhones around the globe running this latest firmware can be used with different SIM cards from different carriers. Thus making [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, baseband, carrier lock, crack, Firmware 3.1.2, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, Hack, Hacktivation, Hactivation, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Locked to Carrier, Sim, un lock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Releases BlackRa1n RC2
October 27th, 2009 J. Epstein GeoHot fixed some minor things with his BlackRa1n Jailbreak application. Download BlackRa1nh here. ** Update — RC2 is out ** Fixed 3G issues Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes Fixed Icy issues Both Windows and Mac If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun
Posted in News Tags: firmware 3.0, Firmware 3.1, Firmware 3.12, GeoHot, Hack, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[iPod] GeoHot Jailbreaks iPod Touch Firmware 3.1
October 8th, 2009 J. Epstein GeoHot today posted a photo of a jailbroken iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.1. He eventually made it. As of now there is no more information available, but it is likely that this is the approach he and the Chronic Dev Team were talking about.
Posted in News Tags: 3.1, Apple, apps, Chronic Dev Team, custom app, Cydia, Cydia Store, CydiaStore, firmware, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, Hack, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, iPodTouch, iPT, jail break, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[Pre] Marry me again: WebOS 1.2.1 syncs to iTunes 9.01
October 5th, 2009 J. Epstein A couple of days after their latest release of WebOS 1.2 Palm released WebOS 1.2.1. Now the Palm Pre is again synchronizing with Apple’s iTunes 9.0.1. Since iTunes version 8.2.1 with every update Apple is trying to stop Palm from syncing their Pre with iTunes. As we’ve seen in the past, all those attempts by [...]
Posted in News Tags: Hack, idVendor, iPhone, iTunes, Mobile, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Sprint, Sprint Mobile, Sync, Syncronize, usb, WebOS, WebOS 1.2.1 No Comments »[Pre] Merry Me again: Update Reunites Palm Pre with iTunes
July 24th, 2009 J. Epstein The “little Palm Apple battle” goes into its next round. A week ago Apple released iTunes 8.2.1. This update blocked Palm Pre users from synchronizing music and movies with iTunes. We reported about this update and the technical implications of the sync feature here. Palm has now released a firmware update (webOS 1.1.0) for the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Battle, bug, error, Hack, issue, issues, iTunes, iTunes 8.2.1, Jon Lech Johansen, Palm, Palm Pre, Problem, Reenable, Sync, update, usb, webOS 1.1.0, Workaround No Comments »[iPhone] Activate MMS on iPhone 2G? (Update)
June 30th, 2009 J. Epstein Update July 04, 2009: MMS now works, MMS server settings are getting saved with the help of some (more or less complicated) tricks. We’re currently prepping a fool proof step-by-step tutorial for all of you. We recommend to not play around with those settings at the moment to not screw up settings worse. Tutorial will [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs, News Tags: ActivateMMS2G, Cydia, guide, Hack, How To, Howto, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, Jailbreak, MMS, sim unlock, Swirly MMS, SwirlyMMS, tutorial 4 Comments »[DVB] Premiere/Sky Nagravision or NDS Videoguard Hack?
June 29th, 2009 J. Epstein What happened so far? The forums and news sites are again full of coverage about a hack of the german Pay-TV channel Premiere (forthcoming name: Sky Germany). As we already stated in april, 2009 this is a hoax. There are no evidences or proofs whatsoever. Anyway you’d better read on, why we believe searching for [...]
Posted in News Tags: Aladin, Card Sharing, Compromise, Compromised, Control Word, crack, Cracked, Digital Pirate Smart Card, DPSC, DVB-C, DVB-S, Even, German, Germany, Hack, hacked, Kudelski, Modified Original Smart Card, MOSC, Murdoch, Nagra 3, Nagra3, Nagravision, Nagravision 3, NDS, NDS Videoguard, negotiations, Odd, Premiere, Rumor, Rupert, Sharing, Sky, Sky Television, SmartCard, Tarnovski, Tarnovsky, Tarnowski, Tarnowsky, temp hack, Ukraine, Versclüsselung No Comments »[iPhone] Firmware 3.0 Sim-Unlocked
June 16th, 2009 J. Epstein The iPhone Dev Team has admitted they got iPhone OS 3.0 hacked with jailbreak and unlock via yellowsn0w. They will perform a live demo on tuesday evening (US time – means in the middle of the night in europe). They are currently testing updated versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn to fully work with iTunes 8.2. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Firmware 3, firmware 3.0, Hack, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone OS 3.0, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, sim unlock, Simunlock, Unlock No Comments »[MacOS] Critical Safari and Firefox Java Exploit
May 21st, 2009 J. Epstein Abstract Landon Fuller reports that an almost six months old Java exploit has still not been fixed for Mac OS X. The exploit allows to compromise the Java sandbox in order to break out and run commands with the permissions of the executing user. Classification This issue is classified as serious as Java applets containing [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Compromise, Critical Issue, CVE-2008-5353, Exploit, Exploits, Hack, Java, Jeffrey Czerniak, Landon Fuller, Mac OS X, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability 1 Comment »[iPhone] iPhone 3G Unlock “yellowsn0w” on Distribution
January 6th, 2009 J. Epstein … by the iPhone Dev Team. You guys really rock. The unlock tool requires a jailbroken iPhone 3G and either Cydia or the Installer installed to download the unlock program called “yellowsn0w” from the Dev Team’s repository. The tool gets distributed for free. Anyway some code-thieves are obviously already selling it by saying it is [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Hack, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, Proxy SIM, Unlock, Unlocked, yellowsn0w No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev Team
December 17th, 2008 J. Epstein The release of the 3G unlock software (currently going under the name yellosn0w) is due to december 31., 2008. The unlock will currently only available for baseband version 2.11.07 or lower. Between Chrismas and new year’s eve members of the team (planetbeing, MuscleNerd and pytey) will be giving a lecture about the security systems in [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, Chaos Computer Club, Hack, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Pwnage, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G Hardware unlocked in Vietnam
December 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein CNet.com reports Tuan Anh Do, a 29 years old business man from Hanoi, now offers hardware unlocking services for the iPhone 3G. He is owner of a couple of cell phone repair stores and he now managed to find a rather painless way to unlock the iPhone 3G and offer that as a service to [...]
[MacOS] Apple recommends using Virus Scanners
December 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein Apple has released a technical note recommending the use of Mac antivirus software. For the first time Apple admits that Macs need protection like other operating systems aswell. Apple recommends three Anti Virus solutions: Intego VirusBarrier X5 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Mac McAfee VirusScan for Mac The open source virus scanner ClamXav is not [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple Anti Virus, Hack, leopard, Mac OS Leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, MacOS, macos x, MacOSX, Protection, Virii, Viruses No Comments »[Windows] Security System of Acrobat 9 Compromised
November 30th, 2008 J. Epstein Adobe’s security implementation of their Acrobat 9 has been compromised. Unprotecting of documents whoes password have been “forgotten” is now possible because of a vulnerability in Acrobat’s security function. The russian software developers Elcomsoft found this and also integrated their findings into their APDFPR 5.0 (Advanced PDF Password Recovery). This tool can handle the security [...]
Posted in News Tags: Acrobat, Acrobat 6, Acrobat 7, Acrobat 8, Acrobat 9, Adobe, Copy, deprotect, Elcomsoft, Hack, hacked, modify, print, remove DRM, remove limitation, remove limitations, remove password, save, unprotect No Comments »[Stories] Germany now Losing Private Data, aswell
October 5th, 2008 J. Epstein Recently we reported about how different british administrations and companies deal with data privacy of their employees and customers. They lost so many data, we continental Europeans never thought we could ever make that up again. As a German, I can now proudly tell you guys: T-Mobile Germany alone lost more data sets during a [...]
Posted in News, Short Stories Tags: Data privacy, Deutschland, Hack, T-Com, T-Mobil, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Germany 1 Comment »