Some news outlets have gotten a little hot and bothered over the latest jailbreak app for the iPhone 4. JailbreakMe.com, which was posted this weekend by the iPhone Dev Team, allows you to circumvent Apple's lock on the device and run unapproved apps and code — just like every jailbreak before it. What makes JailbreakMe unique is that, rather than requiring you to connect to a PC and load a modified operating system to the device over USB, it jailbreaks your iPhone via the Web. The site uses a vulne……
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As mobile banking becomes more popular, security threats will grow — unless banking institutions keep a close watch on their customers' personal information. According to The Wall Street Journal, users of Citibank's iPhone application were recently exposed to a security threat because a previous version of the app had stored personal information — including account numbers, bill payments and security access codes — in hidden files on users' smartphones (or computers). Customers were notifie……
A group of Canadian hackers have identified and learned to exploit a flaw that allows them to turn any USB peripheral into a sort of hardware trojan horse. Plug-and-play USB devices follow a consistent rule, the device identifies itself to the PC. The computer, by rule, will believe that a UB device is whatever it claims to be; if a keyboard says it's a camera, the PC will register it as a camera.
This trust-by-default design makes it easy for a modified peripheral to collect or transmit data with……
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If you're a hacker determined to prove your invincibility, what better place to make a statement than at high-profile event committed exclusively to information security? That's exactly what happened at this week's AusCERT conference, where, for the second time in as many years, organizers fell prey to a virus planted on USB keys handed out to delegates. “At the AusCERT conference this week, you may have collected a complimentary USB key from the IBM booth,” IBM Australia chief technol……
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
Boy, are we stoked about Philippe Starck's latest lamp, recently presented during Milan Design Week. The lamp, manufactured for Flos, is a collaboration with a few of our other favorites; the LED-loving artist-activist Jenny Holzer provides her signature scrolling……
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The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless.
Medical technology is always some of the most exciting tech. Sure, we can have snazzy new iPads and cell phone……
Got a couple of iPhones and an iPad gathering dustr around the house? If so, you can use them to play what might be the most expensive game to ever hit the App Store. It's not the initial $4.99 download that'll bust your bank account, but the $900 in hardware you'll need to play the game. 'PadRacer' is a top-down perspective racing game for the iPad that requires you use an iPhone (or iPod touch) to control your car. That's right, you can only play this game if you own both device……
We've always been told that addiction of any kind is a condition that stems from the brain. Drugs, alcohol or caffeine exert a specific effect on both the brain and the body, the latter of which dictates subsequent consumption. But how much of an addict's behavior can be explained simply in terms of where he or she hangs out? That's the question that National Institute on Drug Abuse researcher David Epstein seeks to answer in a new study on recovering Baltimore's heroin addicts.
Epstein a……
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
Flickr user Max Capacity [AM] lifts pixels from old videogames to build 8-bit cityscapes, from San Francisco to New York. [From: flickr]
Kick your weekend off right with Urlesque's roundup of the very best in epic keytar solos (fake ivory shredding, sultry sm……
We're sure we don't have to tell you how convenient but dangerous USB thumb drives can be. Sensitive data copied to them can easily be lost, and they've even been used as point of entry for hackers. Even the infamous Confiker virus spread partially with the aid of such storage. The NSA is looking to plug this hole in the government's security systems with a tool called USBDetect.
The application, which is actually in its third incarnation, is able to monitor USB ports on PCs attached to ……
