A Dutch hackers has shown the simplicity of an iPhone hack. Countless numbers of jailbroken devices were hacked by using a port scanning technique along with some networking smarts. After the guy gained access he saw that the jailbroken devices had unchanged root passwords along with SSH enabled. If you were hacked the following message popped up on your screen: » Dutch Guy Hacks Jailbroken iPhones
The last couple of days, we have heard so much about the sms-hack from Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller. After the appearence of OS 3.0.1 everybody thought the problem was solved. Except a duo that was also at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas to give a presentation. Luis Miras and Zane Lackey have discovered several SMS-hacks that are not solved with iPhone OS 3.0.1.
Teammember MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team saw a demonstration of the sms-hack during the conference, and concluded: “OMG 3.0.1 does not begin to fix them.”
Via a simple SMS, the iPhone can be hacked, according to Cjarlie Miller. Miller is a well-known securityspecialist and author of the Mac Hacker’s Handbook. Via the SMS vulnerability you’ll get access to the root of the iPhone. The SMS leak will give the attacker the possiblity to activate certain code via an SMS-message sent to you, Miller mentioned on the SyScan exchange. » iPhone Hack Possible Via SMS-Messages
The 24kpwn LLB patch, aka Untethered iPod Touch 2G jailbreak has been releasedy by MuscleNerd. MuscleNerd calls it the 24Kpwn LBB patch. What’s the difference with the untethered jailbreak? When you have applied this patch you will no longer have to have a pc nearby when you would like to jailbreak your device.
» Untethered iPod touch 2G jailbreak released
It took quite some time but some chinese hackers have cracked the iTunes algorihm. While there are some legitimate digital music download sites in China – including 9Sky, Top100 and the recently launched Wawawa – digital music is proving to be a tough sell in the P.R.C, partly because of the market dominance of Baidu’s free mp3 search. There are, however, people making decent profit in this as yet unmeasurable market: the hackers of Apple’s iTunes store gift vouchers and their local agents.
Website ubiqkom has released an updated version of the typing on the iPhone using a Bluetooth keyboard video.Both the keys and the display are in camera focus at the same time, iPhone is in Airplane Mode (so WLAN is intentionally off here) and it uses a simplified mechanism for key event injection (so there is no VNC running on localhost icon any longer).
» Video showing the Bluetooth keyboard and iPhone in use
WiFi Joker is a upcoming app in Cydia that will allow you to basically break wifi networks so you can join them with your iPhone. The exact description from the developers site is: WiFi Joker, an application that lets you connect to password- protected WiFi networks on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch.
» Cydia – WiFi Joker (network hacking)
