The Amazon Fire range comes across as a decently packaged tablet offering that you will be hard-pressed to find fault with, more so given the super affordable price they sell for. Those offer a nice display and peppy performance while build quality is also among the best out there. All of this makes the Fire tablet well suited for web browsing, reading eBooks, listening to … [Read more...] about Hacking Amazon Fire tablet made easy with the Fire Toolbox app
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How a VPN can prevent your e-reader from tracking you
Contrary to to popular belief, e-readers are subjected to extensive tracking. The pretext might be the same - to make personalized recommendations of books or other reading material - the fact is, all e-reader manufacturers keep a watch on what users are up to with their devices. Apart from what you are reading, other details that the companies would like to know of you … [Read more...] about How a VPN can prevent your e-reader from tracking you
Snapchat Photos Stolen and Leaked
It seems Snapchat is the latest victim in what is becoming a long line of apps and services experiencing security breaches and compromises, though it's a little confusing just how or where it happened. What we do know is that a 13GB database of private user photographs is circulating around the Internet (which translates into as many as 200,000 images now public in 4chan and … [Read more...] about Snapchat Photos Stolen and Leaked
New Style of Android Attack: User Interface Inference
At the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium last week in San Diego, California, a new-style of Android security threat was discussed: user interface inference. This next-generation of attack technique communicates the state of any targeted application --the most intimidating example may be if malware can detect that a user has clicked a login button. Knowing that this behaviour … [Read more...] about New Style of Android Attack: User Interface Inference
Yo Raises $1M and Gets Hacked in the Same Week
It seems like the kind of story that should be later-revealed as a joke: a crazy simple app is released with $1 million in venture capital funding and then a few days later it gets hacked. This is what happened to Yo --an app that lets you say "Yo" to your friends. Literally. The app, developed by Life Before Us LLC, is actually the result of an April Fool's joke gone wild. By … [Read more...] about Yo Raises $1M and Gets Hacked in the Same Week
Unlock Your Phone Just By Picking It Up Using NFC
We've all heard a thing or two about NFC (near-field communication) --but Adafruit has come up with one of the most clever and convenient uses for the technology: unlocking your device just by picking it up! When you think about how many times a day you swipe or tap in your password, the appeal is impossible to ignore. The way it works is simple: keep an NFC tag close by … [Read more...] about Unlock Your Phone Just By Picking It Up Using NFC
Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreaking Tool for iOS 5.1.1 Now Available
People have been waiting a long time to jailbreak their new iPad and other devices running iOS 5.1.1. With the Apple tablet, jailbreaking is not a popular choice, but then there are always some for whom to be on the other side of law is fun. For this exclusive group, the combined efforts of the Chronic Dev team and the iPhone Dev Teams have come up with the Absinthe 2.0 … [Read more...] about Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreaking Tool for iOS 5.1.1 Now Available
Dingleberry 3.0 for PlayBook released
For those who are looking to root their BlackBerry PlayBook, the updated version of the Dingleberry tool makes the task a lot simpler. The features which the new release has on offer include the option to downgrade the standard operating system to an earlier version -- to let the Dingleberry app to gain root access -- along with support for streaming video from Hulu. Of course … [Read more...] about Dingleberry 3.0 for PlayBook released
HP TouchPad to get Android via CyanogenMod
The HP TouchPad sold like the hottest cake around though its no secret all of the craze surrounding the tablet can be attributed to its low price tag and not its webOS platform. People simply lapped up the otherwise superbly engineered product hoping to have Android on-board at some point and prominent among those hard at work trying to make the TouchPad Android frindly is … [Read more...] about HP TouchPad to get Android via CyanogenMod
You can now legally hack your iPad
Hackers and jailbreakers, it's time to rejoice. As per new rules announced by the United States government, it will no longer be considered illegal for anyone to jailbreak a device to run any third party app that the original manufacturer may have otherwise declared incompatible. Or to put it in simple terms, all those who have paid for the device (and not the manufacturer of … [Read more...] about You can now legally hack your iPad