Apple’s notoriously closed eco-system has always proved to be a double-edged sword – while it remains safe and sound (most of the time anyways) from viruses, spyware and malware, that does not mean it is 100% foolproof. For a malicious app to make its way into Apple’s heavily guarded and scrutinized App Store, you would [...]

One of the greatest things about Android is the fact that it is open source. This means that pretty much whoever they want can develop software for the platform in addition to tweak the platform however they want, as long as it isn’t illegal. One such way hardware manufacturers tweak the software is by putting a sort of skin [...]

See, I told you that jailbreaking your handset could bring on a series of unwanted events your way. It looks like a security vulnerability has been exposed by a Dutch hacker. The hacker gained access to various jailbroken phones and then he sent picture messages demanding a €5 PayPal payment: If you don’t pay, it’s [...]

It was only a matter of time before this happened — A hacker by the name of Jesse Vincent has successfully been able to get Amazon’s Kindle 2 to run Ubuntu 9.04. Now you may say, who cares it’s just an eBook reader, but perhaps this will unlock some Kindle 2 functionality that no one [...]

One of the main complaints surrounding the Palm Pre is the fact that there is no on screen software keyboard. Instead, every time you want to type a quick message or search for something on the internet, you have to slide out the QWERTY keyboard. Well, thanks to the guys over at webOS Internals this [...]

Here comes a unique and different type of a game, something that may be of interest to novice hackers wannabe out there. The game calls for a user to try and hack a network of computers using arsenals that include viruses or bounce your connection through hacked servers to avoid being caught. In short, it [...]