A HACKING GROUP has published the first DIY-tutorial for unlocking the Iphone to work with a standard SIM card from any cellular network. The downside – break out the soldering iron, folks, this one gets a little complicated.
The unlock requires physically removing the back of the Iphone, and soldering a wire and a switch onto a single trace on the back of the circuitboard. Bypassing this trace allows access to the boot emory on the phone which is used to send commands down to the flash storage on the device. Those commands allow for the carrier lock to be patched.
If you’re not skilled with a soldering iron, however, you’re going to brick your Iphone and be left with nothing more than a very expensive paperweight. The hack also requires better-than-average software skills – apart from ‘jailbreaking’ the phone to run third party applications, there’s a fair amount of Unix work to be done to the phone, too.
The holy grail of the Iphone, software only unlocking, appears no nearer. Recently, fans have been buying so-called Turbo-SIM cards that allow the hacking up of the standard AT&T SIM card with local network cards for unlocked access. This hack bypasses the need for SIM card hacking, but is probably rather more complicated regardless.
More information [iPhoneJTag]
Este popular portal de descargas de BitTorrent ha vuelto a aparecer tras casi 3 años de ausencia. Sus creadores combinan sus anteriores prestaciones con nuevas tecnologías, y hacen público su apoyo al intercambio libre con un manifiesto muy osado.
“Así funciona. Por cada proyecto que hundáis, nacerá otro nuevo. Por cada persona que demandéis, diez piratas más se nos unirán. Donde quiera que vayáis, habremos estado antes. Sois el pasado y caeréis en el olvido. Nosostros somos Internet y el futuro”.
Son las palabras con las que Suprnova anuncia su resurgimiento. Uno de los responsables de este portal, brokep, publicó el pasado lunes un pequeño post en el que explicaba brevemente el pasado, presente y futuro de este portal.
Tal y como afirman en TorrentFreak, este portal se encarga de recorrer 25.000 trackers BitTorrent y presume de contar con una base de datos que tiene nada menos que 1 millón de estos ficheros y 25 millones de clientes conectados. Sin duda un gran comienzo para un portal BitTorrent que tuvo que ser cerrado tras las demandas judiciales de la industria y cuya plataforma pasó a The Pirate Bay, ahora uno de los trackers más populares de todo el mundo.
Más información [TorrentFreak]
IN WHAT appears to be an anti-US and Israel protest, hackers managed to bring down the official website of the United Nations over the weekend.
A section of the site reserved for statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon showed a message “Hacked By kerem125 M0sted and Gsy That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war.”
The three hacker names appear on the the www.m0sted.org website which claims the three are part of CyberProtest whose objective is to repeat the message that “the powerful have no right to oppress the powerless.”
The three claim to have hacked Harvard University, the UN Environment Programme and industrial giants Toyota and Nestle. We would have thought that bringing down the UN in a protest against Israel and US aggression is a bit like taking out Mother Theresa’s site in a protest against Indian poverty.
More information [SMH]
“Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn’t be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server.”
More information [Slashdot]
“Valleywag.com is reporting on a case of a hacker not covering his tracks. It seems that, via a targeted email, an admin at Fark.com downloaded a trojan, which was used to steal passwords for Fark servers. Notably, these activities were traced to an IP address in Memphis Tennessee, and to a Fox News new-media reporter. As to the veracity of the story, that is bolstered by the fact that the story was greenlit for the front page of Fark. Motive? That could range from Fark being a rumored Fox takeover target, to stealing source code for a competing Fox social networking site. If the story is true, laws have been broken, but perhaps not by the Fox News reporter: it’s possible his computer was hacked as well. Whatever the truth, it’s a very entertaining read, as it pushes a number of hot buttons.”
More information [Slashdot]
An anonymous reader sends us to the www.xakep.ru forum where a poster claims that the worldwide Skype crash was caused by Russian hackers (in Russian). The claim is that they found a local buffer overflow vulnerability caused by sending a long string to the Skype authorization server. You can try Google’s beta Russian-to-English translation, but the interesting part is the exploit code, and that’s more readable in the original. The Washington Post reports that Skype has denied this rumor.
More information [Slashdot]
