Posts Tagged ‘ hacks ’

Youngster Unveils Hack For iPod Touch

Oct 15th, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

The Mac Observer is reporting that a 13 year-old nicknamed AriX has produced a “jailbreak method” hack for the iPod touch called iJailBreak. The program allows iPod touch users to install third-party applications.
The hack is especially interesting because of the way that Apple has intentionally crippled the device. For example, it’s been revealed that editing [...]



PodShow Hacked, But Not Pwned

Jun 6th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Services, Strange

Podcasting network PodShow appears to be getting some unwanted attention from hackers.
Some PodShow members have reported getting emails like this:
—–Original Message—–
From: hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com [mailto:hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:18 AM
To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.com
Subject: HACKED!
podshow.com got HACKED by yeknom!
PodShow has contained the issue and released this statement:
At approximately 10am PST today, an attempt was made to compromise our network. [...]