ZTE has admitted that a major security flaw exists in its Score M / Score handset, which is sold my MetroPCS and Cricket in the United States. The company said that a backdoor exploit for device has been discovered, which has the potential to grant hackers root level access to an unknowing user’s device. That

This one pains me on a personal level, since I’m a bit of shoe addict, but customers of Zappos.com have just had their personal info compromised this weekend. Data, such as customer names, e-mails, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card numbers were vulnerable to seizure (though, thankfully, not full numbers, thanks

Earlier this year, an Australia-based Android user named Irwin Proud began an effort urging Motorola to unlock its Android devices. In this case, “unlock” has a particular meaning. It’s not like iOS  jailbreakers trying to unlock their phones for use on another carrier. Unlocking a bootloader means gaining access to “the staging area of custom

When I’m out at parties, or out with nerds, and the conversation turns to video games I often describe my gaming style as ‘Like a 12-year-old girl.” I absolutely love old school Nintendo and Atari games and will play those whenever I can. I own an Xbox and a Wii, but I tend to gravitate

Can you take that cheapo TouchPad you just got for a c-note and slap another OS on it, perhaps one that shows no sign of dropping off anytime soon? Sure you can! Well, okay — maybe you can’t, but when it comes to replacing WebOS with Android on those tablets, the guys at CyanogenMod can.

This is the part in the movie when a montage usually happens. The subjects of a criminal investigation have just taunted the authorities, saying “You can’t stop us,” spurring images of field agents working tirelessly to prove them wrong. And usually, the action culminates in some sort of big showdown. But that’s fiction… or is

On Tuesday, AntiSec, the hacker cooperative of Anonymous and former LulzSec members, took credit for attacking Universal and Viacom, releasing personal data, such as passwords from the Universal Music Website, and confidential Viacom information. This got me thinking — is there any real way for people to protect themselves from hacking? Corporate or government attacks

Firefox plugins are handy, useful little nuggets of utility that expand the breadth of functionality for desktop users. But one of them (called Firesheep) took people to the dark side a few months ago, allowing laptop users to hijack the Facebook logins of others on the same Wi-Fi network — like those enjoying public hotspots.

Another day, another Sony site hacked. It appears that the hacking group known as LulzSec has successfully pulled off the hack of a Sony site that it hinted at yesterday.  The assumption was that it was another attempt at one of the company’s gaming sites, but instead it turned out to be the Sony Pictures,

When Sandra Bullock’s The Net opened 16 years ago, it didn’t get a lot of fanfare — from the public or the critics. At the time, those scenarios all seemed so crazy and far-fetched, didn’t they? The sheer idea of someone’s credit cards and identity being hackable like that. The whole scenario seemed kind of

Over the holiday weekend, one hacking group took PBS’ site and plastered an article on the front page which falsely stated that Tupac was indeed still alive and well. Why? For the “lulz,” it seems. Now, that same group is supposedly working on Sony. The news has come in a wave of Tweets that claim

Hacks can get a pretty bad rap, sending shivers down the spines of privacy and security advocates the world over. But malicious attacks don’t always have to be the raison d’être, do they? Next month, they won’t be: Tech virtuosos will be converging in 18 major cities across the globe to put their innovative concepts and

According to researchers at Germany’s ULM University, almost every Android-powered smartphone is susceptible to a major security hack that would allow third parties to access a user’s private information, calendar, and contacts. This discovery comes after skilled programmers played around with every Google service using the company’s ClientLogin API, which apparently gives third-party hackers the

On Tuesday, July 13th George Hotz (aka Geohot) of iPhone jailbreak fame announced he was no longer going to release any new unlock or jailbreak tools in the foreseeable future.  He took to Twitter to reiterate his message along with a referral for anyone to “please follow my good friend @mikecohenn for all future jailbreak