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  Sega is the latest company to be victimized from the hacking frenzy that has surfaced off late. An email was sent by the company to Sega Pass members confirming about the security breach. The hackers were able to procure email addresses, date of birth and encrypted passwords, which wouldn’t be of no use anyway. [...]

  Nintendo confirmed yesterday that their servers based in US were hacked few weeks ago. Good news is that unlike Sony, user and other confidential data on the server were not compromised. “The server contained no consumer information. The protection of our customer information is our utmost priority.” Hacking group Lulzsec has claimed the responsibility [...]

  Microsoft’s Kinect is barely out in the market for a week and we’re seeing reports about Microsoft’s Xbox 360 controller getting hacked. Adafruit had offered a $2000 bounty to develop an open source Kinect driver and looks like someone has already achieved it. However, the hackers NUI Group that managed to hack it are [...]

  Apple’s been selling the iPad Camera Connection Kit for copying multimedia content directly from digital cameras and with the latest hack surfaced on the web, the Camera Connection Kit will allow users to access data from the external HDD as well. To make this work, you need to have a jailbroken iPad without which [...]

  Many of you out there might have ordered the iPad 3G and if you’ve been wanting to work with a non-AT&T micro SIM card, here’s a nifty guide to make yourself one. All you need is the original SIM card, a knife and scissor. The process is pretty simple but you’ll have to take [...]

  While there’s not a compelling reason for us Android on iPhone, iPhone-Dev team member planetbeing has achieved that feat. Using OpeniBoot, he has managed to dual-boot the device with both, the iPhone and the Android OS. Although the build seems slow and unpolished, most of the things do work. Watch the video below or [...]

  Geohot promised to work on a custom firmware of v3.21 and here we have the first video proof of v3.21 running Other OS. Geohot hasn’t committed to any release date but confirms that installing this custom firmware is as easy as installing a legit firmware. All a user needs to do is restore the [...]

  If you ever felt N900’s Cortex A8 600MHz clock speed a bit underpowered, Maemo forum users have found a way to speed things up. By installing a modded kernel, a user can overclock the N900’s processor to a speedy 1GHz. This, as confirmed by modders makes the N900 fast but does with a few [...]

  Microsoft had released the Windows Phone 7 Series SDK at MIX few days back but the SDK along with the emulator was locked down restricting developers to check out its full features, until now. With few hours of tinkering, Dan Ardelean managed to unlock the ROM image giving full access to the build. Needless [...]

  Leaked Desire ROM has found its way out and Paul over at Modaco forums was quick enough to port it to similar spec’d Nexus One. The ROM is available now for brave Nexus One users to try it out who doesn’t mind ROM’s alpha state to get HTC’s unique Sense UI, Flash 10.1 amongst [...]

  Nokia N900 seems to be getting a lot of love from developers. After seeing couple of videos running Windows as well as Mac operating systems, developers have come forward to exploit the gaming part of it. One video uploaded on YouTube shows N900 flawlessly running Duke Nukem 3D with Wiimote acting as an controller [...]

  We’ve seen quite a few videos showing Nokia devices running Windows OSes but this seems to be the first time where a Nokia device, in this case N900, running Mac OS. User by the name of toninikkanen uploaded the video who claims to have used PearPC emulator. It took over 1.5 hours just to [...]

  iPhone Dev team has released the final build of its redsn0w jailbreaking tool. The latest v0.9.2 can jailbreak all iPhones and iPod touches and supports v3.x firmware. The jailbreak however, is with a catch as newer models will still have a tethered jailbreak, which means you’ll have to jailbreak again after you completely restart [...]

  GeoHot known for his work in the iPhone community is off late, taking interest in Sony’s PS3 console. Last week, he tasted his first success by hacking the console and now he has gone ahead by releasing the PS3 exploit, “in the interest of openness”. Hackers can get the file quickly from here that [...]

  George Hotz aka Geohot is a famous guy in the Apple fraternity, thanks to his iPod/iPhone jailbreak and unlocking solutions but it looks like his popularity will expand amongst the PS3 users too. In a post on his PS3 dedicated blog, he claims to have fully hacked PS3 that gives him read/write access to [...]