George Hotz, the hacker that was the first person to have hacked the iPhone and, of course, was responsible for hacking the Playstation 3 – has taken a job at Facebook. A member of the Chronic-Dev Team named Joshua Hill said in a live stream interview with MyGreatFest that Hotz, didn’t want the attention of [...]

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Hacker extraordinaire, George Hotz, has denied any involvement in the current crisis to effect the Playstation Network. Hotz came to fame firstly for being the first person to jail break the iPhone, but became even more notable when his house was raided after Sony accused him of hacking and publishing the root key for the [...]

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Sony were treated to a Denial Of Service attack today, from the same mob that attacked a load of sites that had withdrawn support for Wikileaks founder Julianna Assange, in retribution for the company’s legal pursuit of PlayStation 3 hackers GeoHot and Graf_Chokolo. “Congratulations, Sony,” a spokesperson for the anarchic collective wrote on its site [...]

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Heads up Google lovers; a rogue Android app has been tweaked by hackers in order to hijack your smartphone and run up a huge texting bill. Vikram Thakur, security response manager at Symantec, said that the app named Steamy Window is a free program that Chinese hackers have modified, then re-released into the wild. The Trojan [...]

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Apparently it’s not just the FBI that are on the hunt for hackers but God is too. If you’ve seen some of Louis Theroux’s work you will have probably seen extremist Christian lunatics the Westboro Baptist Church who are famous for their God Hates Fags slogan as well as such delightful behaviour as anti-Jewish protests [...]

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The problem with big companies is that they are big targets. Nintendo have had recent ‘security issues’ with an unnamed hacker from the Malaga area of Southern Spain. The hacker allegedly threatened to report Nintendo to data protection authorities over a security breach he was responsible for unless Nintendo met his demands. The online hustler [...]

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A security researcher using his own custom built software has tapped Amazon’s cloud computing service to crack Wi-Fi passwords quickly and cheaply. Thomas Roth of Cologne, Germany told Reuters he software running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service to break into a WPA-PSK protected network in about 20 minutes and claimed that with refinements to [...]

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If jailbreaking Apple’s iPhone wasn’t enough kudos for US hacker George Hotz (aka geohot), he now also has hacking the Sony PlayStation 3 to his name. The hacked console means that players can now run pirated games, unrestricted versions of Linux or home made software. The feat is noteworthy as the PS3 was previously the [...]

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