The Apple Bites

The Third iPhone Worm Discovered

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by tABStaff.

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A fortnight ago, there was first iPhone malicious worm discovered in Australia, and was harmless – did nothing except major. It just changed the background picture on the iPhone. Then came a new malware attack just a few days later, and today the third iPhone worm is discovered and it can steal your information. The [...]

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Atom can rock on with Mac OSX 10.6.2 kernel mod

Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Renzo.

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With the latest Mac OSX update for Snow Leopard, v10.6.2, Intel Atom processors were no longer supported. This has consequences for a lot of Hackintoshers who installed Mac OSX on their netbooks using the hackintosh kernel-mod. But it took no longer than 2 weeks before the restrictive work of Apple was undone by a new hack of Mac OSX’s Darwin kernel.

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Download: Custom Custom Firmware 3.1 For iPhone 3Gs

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by tABStaff.

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Yesterday the iPhone DevTeam released the latest version of PwnageTool. Unfortunately it is still for Mac users only. Here you can download custom 3.1 firmwares for your 3Gs, but read the rules before downloading. First thing you need to do is to jailbreak your iPhone 3Gs using firmware 3.0 or 3.0.1. If you are on [...]

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How To: Get Vonage on Your iPhone

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by tABStaff.

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I originally signed up with Vonage because it was inexpensive and it gave me unlimited calls to France (and other countries) where all my friends and family still are. As my fiance and I are planning our one-year trip around the globe, I started looking into getting Vonage on my iPhone so I can make [...]

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iPhone Hack Exposed: The Key Facts

Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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As we reported earlier today, security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner have exposed an iPhone virus that could allow criminals to control your phone just by sending a single text message (SMS). Their presentation, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, is making a lot of waves, but the details are scattered or [...]

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Hack: Removing Passcode and Encryption

Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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While Apple is struggling to get the iPhone adopted by business users, some more problems come their way as iPhone hacker NerveGas found yet another security hole that can allow anyone with a little technical knowledge to bypass the passcode and access encrypted and protected information on your iPhone 3GS. You can see NerveGas hacking [...]

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GPower Hack Adds Reboot and Respring to iPhone

Posted on 25. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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On PC or Mac, you can easily reboot it using a couple of mouse click. But there is no direct way to reboot your iPhone. A hack called GPower targets to On top of the built-in “Slide to Power” function, GPower is a new cydia application that adds “Slide to Reboot” and “Slide to Respring” [...]

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Simple Hack: Free MMS on the iPhone 3G For T-Mobile

Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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Simple Tutorial to Hack for Free MMS on the iPhone 3G running 3.0 with T-Mobile. Note that this hack only works for T-Mobile on the iPhone 3G. First, go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. Add the following in MMS field: * APN: wap.voicestream.com * Username: leave blank * Password: leave [...]

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iPhone Hacked Via SMS

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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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 [...]