iPhone Hacks

How to Change the Carrier Name On Your iPhone

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? 

Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone. 

How to Change Your Jailbroken iPhone's Root Password

The recent spate of worm attacks in the past week has brought the focus on the importance of your root password. 

Unlike feature phones, smartphones like the iPhone run on operating systems, which very much like our computer have administrator privileges.

How to Jailbreak And Unlock your iPhone With Blackra1n And Blacksn0w On Mac

If you are looking to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone, here is a tutorial on how you can do it with Geohot's blackra1n software. 

This tutorial is for Mac users only. If you are a Windows user, you may read the corresponding jailbreaking guide here. 

How to Jailbreak And Unlock Your iPhone With Blackra1n And BlackSn0w on Windows

We had recently written about the release of Geohot's iPhone jailbreaking tool Blackra1n. 

Here is a short tutorial that you might find useful in using these tools to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS on your Windows PC.

Yet Another Worm Exploit On Jailbroken iPhones That Steals Personal Data

Close on the heels of the iKee virus attack that rickrolled jailbroken iPhone users earlier this week comes yet another worm that exploits the same security hole - just that this one is much more dangerous. 

Identity of iKee Hacker Who Rickrolled Jailbroken iPhones Revealed

The identity of the Australian hacker who had 'rickrolled' jailbroken iPhones with the 'iKee' virus is now revealed. It is 21 year old Ashley Towns from Wollongong, Australia. 

Ashley, who is a student at TAFE, says he had created the virus merely as a prank and to make people aware of security holes. 

Jailbroken iPhones Hit With 'RickRoll' Worm

If you are one of those users who had jailbroken their iPhones but did not care to change the default password after installing SSH, you might want to do it now. 

A new worm has been infecting those jailbroken iPhones that still carry the same default 'alpine' password. 

Apple Hiring "iPhone OS Platform Security Manager" to Stop iPhone Jailbreaking

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is looking to hire a new iPhone OS security manager to stay ahead of the cat and mouse game between them and the iPhone hacking community. 

Thanks to Geohot, the iPhone hacking community has recently raced ahead by unlocking iPhone OS 3.1.2, Apple’s latest iPhone OS.

Geohot Releases BlackSn0w: Free Solution to Unlock iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.1.2 and Baseband 05.11.07

Geohot has released blacksn0w to unlock iPhone running iPhone OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07.

Along with blacksn0w, Geohot is also releasing sa new version of his popular and extremely simple iPhone jailbreaking tool blackra1n RC3, with hactivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.

Geohot to Release Blacksn0w for Baseband Unlocking On November 4

Earlier last week, we had written about a new update released by Geohot to his Blackra1n iPhone jailbreaking tool that shall help users on iPhone OS 3.1.X to jailbreak their iPhones. 

Back then however, Geohot had posted the following disclaimer: