Hack Attack : Easily Activate/Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 1.1.4
Apple released the latest firmware for iPhone early today. While ZiPhone was claimed to be working for most people on the latest firmware, but they were widespread reports that ZiPhone couldn’t activate phones with Firmware 1.1.4 but could successfully Jailbreak and Unlock it. This time around a guy named George (Not to be confused with George Hotz of the Gunlock fame) has come up with a simple solution to Activate and Jailbreak iPhones with the latest firmware. Before I go into the specifics of this hack, let me point out... Read The Rest →
Breaking : Credit Card Magnetic Strips Hacked!
If the security risks faced by credit card users weren’t already enough, now the security information that is stored in a magnetic strip behind the card can be hacked and be used for malicious purposes. Hacking the data on the magnetic strip so far has been unsuccessful but RFID security guru Adam Laurie has come up with a test program named CHaP.py, specifically designed to read the chip and PIN credit cards that comply with the EMV standard. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the EMV Standard : The... Read The Rest →
A Step by Step Guide to Unlock Your 1.1.3 OTB iPhone
Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again. He’s discovered an exploit that will allow you to unlock your brand new iPhone, thats factory fresh with the latest 1.1.3 firmware and the 4.6 bootloader. Unlocking your iPhone isn’t all that difficult, but I’d suggest you wait for more refined releases in the future. But if you are one of those who’ve been waiting forever for this unlock to come out. If you can’t wait any longer, then read on and follow the instructions below to unlock your iPhone in just about 15... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista
If you are a Windows Vista user, there is nothing more bugging than the UAC in Windows Vista. UAC which was supposed to bring improved security in Windows, does it pretty well but at the cost of user friendliness. There are lots of apps and softwares that I run on my Machine, and Vista bugs me everytime I open them. For quite some time I’ve been looking to disable UAC for select applications, rather than disabling it all together, as that could possibly create a security havoc. After some time... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Install Leopard On your PC in Just One Step
Update : If you are looking for a guide to Dual Boot Windows Vista and Mac OSX Leopard, please follow this guide Hack Attack : Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista. The Dual Boot Guide is a comprehensive guide and it should work for most of you with a little bit of hard work. Here is a complete guide to install Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.1 (9B18) on your PC, in just one step that is as easy as it could possibly get. Just pop in the DVD and you are... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Shutdown Windows Faster
If you are in a hurry and you want to shutdown Windows as fast as it can get, without all the program terminations and the hangs that are normally associated with Windows here is a tip that can shutdown Windows real quick… By real quick I mean real quick, as in Blink of a eye. Its not that difficult either, all you need to do is go to the Run Prompt and type shutdown -f -t 0. Well executing this command at Run would make Windows shutdown real quick, by... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update
Well If you have read my previous Hack Attack on How you can download Windows Vista SP1 through a Hack and it worked for you then here is another Hack that will allow you to download Windows XP SP3 RC1 directly from Microsoft. Windows XP SP3 will be the final service pack that we will see for the World’s biggest Operating System from Microsoft. SP3 will bring a host of bug fixes and some new features borrowed from Vista. Well here is how you can download SP3 straight from... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Use Your ZUNE 2 as a Flash Drive
Its been a only few days since Microsoft released Zune 2, the portable music player that everyone hates. I really liked the hype that Microsoft built up for Zune 2 and believe me it does look like a solid Music Player and manages to beat its chief Rival Apple iPod in a quite a few places. Leave all that apart, I am now going to tell you how you can use your Zune as just another flash drive using the USB port. Please note that this is a registry hack,... Read The Rest →
AFP for iPhone and iPod Touch
The Super iPhone Hacker Core has completed the implementation of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Advantage of this software lies in the fact that you can connect to your iPhone and it shows up as a disk with full read/write permissions. Installing AFP isn’t a straightforward method. It currently involves quite a bit of Manual setup because its not available yet on Installer.app. Well here is how you need to configure your iPhone to be AFP ready,
iPhone/iPod Touch Jailbreaking becomes Super Simple!
Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch couldn’t get any simpler than this. A team of hackers have come up with what is arguably the best way to jailbreak that Apple Toy of yours. Erica Sadun of the TUAW fame who was one of the developers of jailbreakme.com (I’m not linking to it, because it can wreak havoc with your Desktop Safari Browser) The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like. To use it all... Read The Rest →
