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Hack Attack : Preview the Next Google UI Before Anyone Else!

Hack Attack : Preview the Next Google UI Before Anyone Else!

November 27, 2009  |  , , , , , ,  |  View Comments

Google Search Engine is a constant changing one.. Recently after the successful internal testing of Caffeine, Google has decided to deploy it in the wild starting next year. But these are under the hood changes that most of us may not notice.

But over the past few months, Google has also been secretly testing a new UI and look for the Google Search engine, which has essentially not changed much since its inception. Do you want to be one among the secret testers, to have a sneak peak of the new design?

New Google

To get this Hack Attack to work for you, you need to be using the international version of Google i.e. http://google.com/ncr and not the localized version that you are redirected to usually.

Once you are at the Google Homepage, copy the following text and paste it in the address bar as it is… Read More

Hack Attack : Secure your Jailbroken iPhone

Hack Attack : Secure your Jailbroken iPhone

November 14, 2009  |  , , , , ,  |  View Comments

The beginning of this week, saw the coming of the first ever iPhone worm. The worm out in the wild as iKee (The one that changes the wallpaper to that of Rick Astley – of the rickrolling fame!) is actually a wrapper built around iPhone/Privacy.A that runs silently in the background without ever letting the user know that it is running. What does the worm do?

Well it goes after the personal data stored on your iPhone which includes email, contacts, SMS, Calendars, Photos etc. So if you have Jailbreak’ed your iPhone, you have to be concerned now.

ikee-iphone-wallpaper

Also the worm doesn’t need to be running on an infected device, the attacker could instead load it onto a Computer in a public network and scan for iPhone’s connected to the same network that are deemed to be vulnerable.

The attack vector is simply the Jailbroken iPhone, which is what you need to secure if you are running a Jailbroken iPhone. Since the iPhone runs on the trusted Unix Based Filesystem the fix is actually easier than it seems and you lose out on nothing with regards to the Jailbreak functionality.

So how do we do it? We just change the root password of iPhone to prevent hackers from getting access to the precious personal data on your iPhone. It’ll hard take you a couple of minutes but will save you a lot of trouble later.

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