We’ve all seen the websites that offer free Microsoft Points. Of course you have to do several surveys first, all of which are fake, and then you have to give the unknown site your credit card number for “validation” and then you have a couple thousand Microsoft Points. This time around a website was giving away real Microsoft points which cost the company around 1.2 million dollars. Crafty hackers found an algorithm to add to existing used codes, and get new ones. All the person would have to do is refresh the page and receive Microsoft Points in 160 point

If you are an iPhone 4 user and in case you have just lost your mobile, then that is not the last piece of bad news that you have to deal with. There are people out there who could hack into your device and know all your stored passwords in matter of mere minutes. The alarming thing about this is the fact that it takes nothing beyond 6 minutes and one need not even crack the phones password for it! Researchers in Germany have been able to retrieve stored sensitive information on iPhone 4 and passwords in mere matter of 6 minutes using keychain, along with the password

You’d think the creator of the largest, most successful social networking site in the world would be more secure than this. CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook was hacked. A message was left on his status in regards to Facebook needing money and allowing their users to invest in Facebook(shown below). “Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why do not up their users invest up in a social way? Why not turn up to the ‘social business’ as Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you

Is the match between Nokia and Android something that is destined to happen at sometime in the future for sure? Well, we might never find that happening officially anytime soon, but the fact that the Nokia N900 allows you to run almost any OS on it if you have the know-how, has already allowed people to enjoy the thought of Windows Phone 7 on it. Now it is the turn of Gingerbread to unleash its magic on the N900 and we are no doubt already floored at the prospect of Android and the Nokia merging together; even if it is not all official! There might be people in the market out

Twitter suffered from an XSS attack that led users to a 3rd party website. As most people know, Twitter was hacked the other day. As a result of the hack, visitors to Twitter’s site were redirected to porn sites when the victim simply hovered over malicious link in certain tweets. Fortunately for mobile device users, accessing Twitter through third party applications did not subject them to this attack. What Twitter suffered from was a Cross-Site Scripting attack (or XSS). This occurs when an attacker finds a site that is vulnerable to this sort of attack and they insert

Apple is ensuring that its drive against the jailbreak admirers bears a positive fruit sooner or later, and Cupertino is not bothered about the losses they will have to bear. Apple simply wants to get rid of all forms of hacking and jail breaking is a major-major technique which lets you do a lot of additional things with your Apple logo bearing gadgets. The irony is that Jailbreak will continue to find its admirers (even more than the number of people who admire the iOS) and the next big thing from the world of ‘hacking’ will be Chronic Dev Team’s GreenPois0n.

Well here it is folks, we now have it confirmed that the Verizon Wireless locked Droid 2 has been officially compromised and the gang to do it, as always, is xda-developers. Now before you start getting all the more excited, be sure to know that the hackers warn you that rooting the device will be all at your risk. This implies that although the Droid 2 has been hacked to do a lot of other things you otherwise can’t do, there is a stern ‘hidden’ warning that your smartphone may also end up as a dead box in a single second. Honestly speaking, we believe the

A video showing a hacked Apple iPad device running Adobe Flash 10.1 on its browser has appeared on the Internet. The operation of Flash, which was ported from Android, on the iPad was made possible by an unofficial mod called Frash that uses a compatibility layer to help Flash run on the Safari browser on the iPad The video shows Flash to be operating smoothly on the iPad and offering support for audio as well. The view is also shown to be resized without any problems to the software. However, Frash does present a few problems with the interface, such as the inability to play a

A member of the iPhone Dev Team known as planetbeing has posted pictures and a video of an iPhone 4 device in Canada that has been unlocked and is working on mobile carrier Bell’s network. The pictures that were posted show the iPhone 4 handset running on Bell’s network signal while another picture showed Cydia to be running on the device. However, planetbeing has mentioned in the video that the current carrier unlock is just the first build of the software and has also admitted that its performance is below par. The pictures of the iPhone 4 carrier unlock that were earlier

HTC Evo 4G selling through Sprint in the US is already one of the best smartphones available, but Sprint jumped the gun early by releasing an incomplete Froyo OTA update for the handset. The Early adopters of Froyo on Evo 4G did realize that they made a mistake early by adopting Froyo as the OS update is marred with a number of flaws. We have no clue as to when an official patch to take care of the Froyo issues on Evo 4G will arrive, but XDA Developers are already done with .6 update release which does take care of those issues. Waiting for an official update is your call, but