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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Brutal Legend Review

We take a look at the latest game from Tim 'Grim Fandango' Schafer, who this time has teamed up with Ozzy Osbourne and Jack Black to make what might be the definitive music game for rockers and rollers. Take a gander to find out what we think of Brütal Legend.

October 13, 2009 | 14:03

Hacker runs Ubuntu on Amazon Kindle

An enterprising hacker has successfully forced his Kindle 2 e-book reader to run the ARM port of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

September 4, 2009 | 14:05

iPhone SMS hijacking flaw fixed

A bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages which can lead to remote code execution - first spotted by security pro Charlie Miller - has been patched by Apple.

August 3, 2009 | 13:12

Commodore 64 laptop mod

Master modder Ben Heck turns his skills to the Commodore 64, creating a portable C64 machine that loads games from an SD card.

April 7, 2009 | 14:22

X-Blades

X-Blades is a third-person hack ‘n’ slash from Topware Interactive which follows the exploits of thong-clad heroine Ayumi. Battling your way through scores of demons in long-forgotten temples has never been done in so little attire.

March 1, 2009 | 08:51

Hacker creates SSLstrip package

A hacker at the Black Hat conference has demonstrated a tool dubbed SSLstrip, which is capable of fooling browsers into giving up SSL encrypted data.

February 20, 2009 | 13:49

Android browser vulnerability published

Security researcher Charlie Miller has unveiled a rather worrying security hole in Google's Android platform - one which allows for arbitrary code execution.

February 13, 2009 | 15:03

Kaspersky suffers database crack

Kaspersky - anti-virus and security software vendor - has had its website attacked by crackers, who have made off with a full copy of the company's database.

February 9, 2009 | 15:40

Janus team launches "Privacy Adaptor"

The Janus team - creators of the pro-privacy JanusVM - has announced a hardware based 'privacy adaptor' that routes all traffic across a VPN or the TOR network.

December 23, 2008 | 13:08

Prince of Persia PC is DRM-free

Ubisoft has officially confirmed reports that the PC version of Prince of Persia will be free of any DRM.

December 15, 2008 | 10:51

Hackers boot Linux on iPhone

The infamous iPhone-Dev team has managed to get a working copy of Linux to boot on an iPhone, although the hack is very much at the proof of concept stage.

December 1, 2008 | 09:12

Security flaw in Vista discovered

Another security flaw has been discovered in Windows Vista, this time allowing for a buffer overflow in the networking subsystem to overwrite kernel memory.

November 24, 2008 | 13:02

Hacker installs Debian onto G1

If you're a G1 owner hoping to get a little more power out of your Android-based device, take a leaf out of Jay Freeman's book and install Debian on it.

November 11, 2008 | 14:07

Android flaw executed typed text

A bug in the Android smartphone platform from Google causes text entered on the device's keyboard to be executed by the underlying OS as a root user.

November 10, 2008 | 13:24

G1 Android handset jailbroken

The first commercial Android implementation, the T-Mobile G1, has been officially 'jailbroken' with a backdoor discovered that allows users full system access.

November 7, 2008 | 13:48

WPA crackable in fifteen minutes

A pair of security researchers are to give a presentation at PacSec this week demonstrating a method of cracking WPA wireless encryption in under fifteen minutes.

November 7, 2008 | 08:57

The USB-based door lock

The Makers Local 256 has released plans to build a computerised door lock which reads the unique ID of any USB-connected device and uses it as a key to gain access.

October 23, 2008 | 17:11

Yahoo's Zimbra exposes passwords

Yahoo's Zimbra client - part of Yahoo Desktop - exposes the password uses to access your e-mail via IMAP in plain text, allowing an eavesdropper to gain access.

September 30, 2008 | 13:07

First 'hackintosh' modchip surfaces

The first modchip - an internal USB dongle - aimed at getting MacOS X running on an off-the-shelf PC has started to surface in eager users hands around the globe.

September 15, 2008 | 13:21

Mythbusters RFID episode banned

Comments by Adam Savage at a conference tell the tale of a planned RFID-busting episode which was cancelled following legal leanings from credit card companies.

September 3, 2008 | 08:58

Defcon: 'Subway Hack' talk gagged

A presentation demonstrating major security weaknesses in the MiFare Classic-based CharlieCard RFID system has been gagged via court order this weekend.

August 11, 2008 | 09:02

TJX crackers charged

The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it has indicted eleven individuals believed to have been involved in the penetration of networks owned by TJX.

August 7, 2008 | 10:41