After two long weeks back in Australia with my WiFi only iPhone I’m pleased to say I’ve finally got it working on an Australian GSM network. And it works perfectly (albeit with no visual voicemail – but I’ll survive). There are now no fewer than four different ways to unlock the iPhone, and it seems more are being released each day. Software solutions are just around the corner, however I chose to go theTurboSIM method, as I felt a hardware based unlock was more update-resistant than the software solutions. This is a hunch, and I’m comfortable if I’m proved wrong — the TurboSIM still works for me!
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Crackdown on major phishing gang leads to the arrest of 24 people behind the attacks on thousands of websites used to commit identity theft. Police in Italy have arrested 24 people thought to be behind a hacking attempt that saw 10,000 websites compromised and used to launch phishing attacks. The members of the alleged phishing ring were tracked by the authorities for several weeks. The operation, called “Phish and Chip” snared 18 Italians and eight people from Eastern Europe. The phishing campaign targeted users of the Italian post office as well as several other European financial institutions.
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If this info is true, the team from Hackint0sh and a Macedonian hacker successfully broke open the iPhoneâs carrier lock allowing it to be used with a European SIM card. The previous hack only let the iPhone make calls, however, this process is suppose to fully unlock all functionalities such as incoming and outgoing calls, SMS and EDGE data access.
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Security vendors have warned email users to be as vigilant about PDF attachments as they would for other file formats, after seeing a sharp rise in spam containing infected PDF files. Email security vendor Messagelabs reported on Tuesday that PDFs made up 20 percent of image-based spam in July, up 10 percent from June. Image-based spam makes up around 22 percent of total spam, the company said. MessageLabs believes attackers are using the PDF format because it more easily bypasses antivirus and anti-spam filters, and that users tend to trust the authenticity of a PDF over other types of documents, even if they don’t recognise the sender.
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LAS VEGAS (AFP) – US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the Internet. The National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense and the FBI were among the spy, military and police agencies represented at DefCon, an international gathering of hackers in Las Vegas. Hackers and computer security professionals made up the bulk of the more than 6,000 people that took part in the three-day conference which ended Sunday, according to founder Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss.
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Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators said their sample iPhone exploit could be replaced with malicious code that could remotely force the iPhone to do just about anything. For example, the iPhone exploit could be made to send the iPhone’s e-mail passwords to the attacker or even record and relay audio on the iPhone.
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WASHINGTON — Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning.
The move by SunRocket, which offered service via Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, was first reported Monday on The New York Times’ Web site.
It was confirmed by Martin Pinchinson, a spokesman for Sherwood Partners LLC of Palo Alto, Calif., who said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the financial consulting company was handling SunRocket’s liquidation.
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There are two nice bits of iPhone news today, both a result of folks’ deep digging into the phone’s architecture. The first concerns hacking: people working with the #iPhone dev crew I wrote about last week have put up full instructions on how to add customized ring tones to the phone.
Here’s how to do it if you’re using an Intel Mac, and here’s the recipe for a PC.
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t’s been seven years since a Montreal teenager known only as Mafiaboy hacked into computers the world over by exploiting chinks in the security systems of major companies and universities, including Yahoo, Yale and CNN.
Now a Swiss company claims it can slow such activity by doing for hackers what eBay did for collectors of decorative spoons: create a marketplace for the sale of software vulnerabilities to the highest bidder.
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A Glendale man is being indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly scanning ATM card data from Dollar Tree stores and using that information to withdraw funds from the associated bank accounts. The indictment alleges that Parkev Krmoian, 44, and another unidentified suspect were involved in the bank and debit card fraud conspiracy. The unidentified suspect may be found driving a light-colored, late model Honda minivan.
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