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• Hackers claim 'jailbreak' victory with PS3 USB key

  By Matt Peckham | 21 August, 2010 04:29

  In the four years since Sony's PlayStation 3 has been with us, it's never been hacked to play pirated games--until now, that is, if claims by hacker group PSJailbreak prove true.

• The Web-based iOS jailbreak tool- how does it work?

  By Mike Keller | 03 August, 2010 04:57

  Hot on the heels of the U.S. Copyright office declaring jailbreaking smartphones legal, a new web-based iOS jailbreak tool has surfaced. The new tool makes the jailbreaking process leaps and bounds simpler than past PC-based tools.

• 'Jailbreaking' iPhones now legal

  By AAP | 27 July, 2010 10:36

  US copyright law was modified on Monday to make it legal to hack smartphones such as iPhones to switch telecom service providers or install applications without Apple's approval.

• 21 apps Apple doesn't want on your iPhone

  By InfoWorld staff | 05 January, 2010 11:26

  Apple doesn't want you to use them, but the following 21 apps today run only on jailbroken iPhones.

• New Malware Affects Jailbroken iPhones

  By Mike Keller | 12 November, 2009 08:40

  Late last week, an Australian hacker dubbed ikee deployed the Rickrolling worm - a harmless and humorous worm that installs a picture of 80s one hit wonder Rick Astley to affected users' home screens. Rickrolling serves not so much as malware but as a warning to jailbreak users who have installed SSH in order to gain root access to their iPhone's file system from the internet but have neglected to change the default password, even though not doing so is clearly warned against in the installation documentation.

• Jailbreaking puts iPhone owners at risk, says researcher

  By Gregg Keizer | 10 November, 2009 05:25

  Jailbroken iPhones are much easier to hijack, a noted security researcher said today, and the proof is in the worm that has infected some Australian phones.

• First iPhone worm spreads Rick Astley wallpaper

  By Robert McMillan | 09 November, 2009 08:25

  The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia.

• iPhone 3GS is jailbreakable. Does it matter?

  By Ian Paul | 27 June, 2009 03:10

  The hack masters at the iPhone Dev Team earlier today announced the iPhone 3GS is officially jailbreakable. The news comes less than a week after Apple released the latest iteration of its wonder gadget featuring new toys like video capability and a digital compass. The Dev Team said that while the iPhone 3GS jailbreak poses some extra technical difficulties, the new phone is susceptible to the same jailbreak and unlock techniques used on earlier iPhone models.