All the stories tagged with hackers
Kinect open source driver for Windows available for download
11/10/2010, Remember the $2,000 bounty for a hacked version of an open source Kinect driver? Well, someone managed to “break” Kinect, so to speak, but did not do it out of the love of money (how noble). Hector Martin (@marcan42) of [...]
Hacker Demonstrates A $1,500 Setup To Intercept Your Calls
08/02/2010, In a move that will have privacy advocates worried, a white hat hacker demonstrated a rather scary way of intercepting cell phone calls at DefCon 2010. Using a $1,500 kit which included a laptop and two RF antennas, he successfully [...]
Hacker Geohot Jailbreaks The iPhone 4
07/12/2010, Jailbreak fans should be quite happy to hear that Geohot has recently mentioned that he’s managed to jailbreak his iPhone 4, which gives us hope for more options to jailbreak the device. That being said, the bad news is that [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 Hacked To Offer 1080p Video Recording
06/16/2010, Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-GH1 is a very capable camera, what with its ability to capture 720p HD video. That being said, it seems that the camera is capable of greater feats, as a hacker named Tester 13 has managed to reverse [...]
Hackers Could Potentially Disable Your Car’s Brakes, Engines, And Pretty Much Everything Else
05/14/2010, While everybody is quite stressed over the issue of road safety nowadays, a team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego has found something to further add to your stress levels. They found [...]
Hacker Gets OtherOS Feature Back On The PS3 After 3.21 Firmware Update
04/08/2010, 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 [...]
GSM Encryption Cracked
12/30/2009, Operators have been relying on the A5/1 encryption to protect the privacy of calls made over GSM networks for a good 21 years, but now it seems that the code has been cracked by a 28-year old German, Karsten Nohl. [...]
