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iPhone 2.0 Has Already Been Jailbroken! 3/11/2008

As this image, taken from the Dev Team’s website, proves it the iPhone’s firmware 2.0 (or 1.2) has already been jailbroken.

Hacking the iPhone for Espionage 11/19/2007

No, it’s not enough that you can hack your iPhone to operate on the T-Mobile network, or launch third-party applications, or play games. No, someone had to go and demonstrate how you can — quite easily, with some know-how — turn an iPhone, or any smartphone, into a full-blown spy gadget.

Turn Windows Xp into Vista 9/30/2007

A really cool add on application for Windows XP where you can mod your interface to get it looking like Windows Vista. Its a lot better than the free versions you can find. Also every 100th buyer wins a free unlocked iPhone. Free.

Does the iPhone Encourage Insecure Passwords? 9/06/2007

Everyone knows that good passwords include letters, numbers, and symbols, but the iPhone’s keyboard layout makes it ‘difficult’ to type these secure passwords.

A Thorny Issue: Detecting Mobile Search Click-Fraud 9/05/2007

Search engines, Internet Yellow Pages and other mobile service companies are looking to aggressively deploy applications and advertising through wireless devices, and the iPhone has heated up the intensity another notch.

Safari exploit gives hackers full control over iPhones and possibly PCs 7/23/2007

Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have used the vulnerability to take malicious control of the iPhone from rogue websites loaded with the exploit. Once in, researchers have full administrative access over the phone allowing them to listen in on room audio or snatch the SMS log, address book, call history, email passwords and more…

Security firm: Don’t use iPhone Web dialer 7/17/2007

Attackers could exploit a bug in this feature to trick a victim into making phone calls to expensive “900″ numbers or even keep track of phone calls made by the victim over the Web, said Billy Hoffman, lead researcher with SPI Labs. The iPhone could even be stopped from dialing out, or set to dial out endlessly, he said.

Botnet threatens iPhone buyers, reports PandaLabs 7/11/2007

Panda Software ’s laboratory has uncovered a tool used to redirect users to a page that imitates the iPhone’s official website to steal their money - The botnet has been used by cyber-crooks to control over 7,500 computers infected by the Aifone.A Trojan

How to Rip DVDs and Convert to iPhone Video MP4 7/07/2007

The tutorials describe the step by step way about convert/ripping DVDs (either movie DVD or music video DVD) to iPhone video format(MP4, MPEG-4, H.264), and converting all other popular movie files to iPhone. The iPhone converter software is easy to use, works flawlessly.