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The PS5 has Been Jailbroken! (Well, Until Sony hears About It At Least!)
Ever since the PS5 was released in November 2020, it was clearly always going to represent something of an exciting and highly-tempting challenge for those looking to break through the system’s design and security to, metaphorically, open it up for people to tinker around with. – Known as jailbreaking, the…
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After 8 Years of Trying, The PS4 Might Now Have A Full-Blown Jailbreak!
It’s been over 8-years now since the release of the PS4 and, by and large, the console has proven to be exceptionally resiliant to hackers. Oh, don’t get us wrong, successes have certainly been made here and there. By and large though, the system has largely remained fairly well locked…
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Sony Sues Hacker For Attempting To Sell Jailbroken PS4s
Sony Sues Hacker For Attempting To Sell Jailbroken PS4s It’s something that was perhaps far more associated with the original Xbox Console, but apparently, it is possible to jailbreak a PS4. Personally, while I didn’t consider this impossible, to date I’d certainly never heard of it happening before. Not, of…
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New PS Vita Jailbreak Allows Homebrew and Emulators
The PS Vita a great little handheld console that was unduly abandoned by Sony and suffered from a dearth of decent games, but a new jailbreak that allows homebrew software and emulators could help breathe life into the sadly forgotten hardware. It has taken a while to fully unlock the…
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Hacker Confirms PlayStation 4 Jailbreak
The PlayStation 4 has been on the market for a while now, and since release, you can bet that hackers, modders and more have been tinkering with the hardware and software of the latest Sony console to find a way to run unauthorised software. From homebrew software to piracy, breaking…
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TPP Could Outlaw Jailbreaking Smartphones
By now, most people will have heard the many ways in which the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement between Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, United States, Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Singapore, and New Zealand, will restrict or prevent free expression for users of internet and related technologies, but with the…
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Million Dollar iOS 9 Hack Bounty Claimed
It was announced today by Zeronium that their recent bounty of $1 million for a hack that would remotely compromise an iPhone running iOS 9 has been claimed. The bounty for the hack was posted back in September, and with merely hours left on the bounty, it was revealed on Twitter…
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DMCA Exception Makes Smart TV Hacking Legal
Every three years, the US Copyright Office listens to petitions to make revisions and exemptions to the anti-circumvention protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The Software Freedom Conservancy used the most recent review as an opportunity to make jailbreaking smart TVs legal under the DMCA, an exemption which,…
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Lizard Squad PS4 Jailbreak Rumoured for 2015 Release
There are strong rumours abound that hacker collective Lizard Squad has developed a PlayStation 4 jailbreak and that it plans to release it at some point this year. Reports suggest that Lizard Squad found a security flaw in the PS4’s 2.03 firmware, allowing them to modify the root files to…
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New Jailbreak for Apple’s iOS 7.1.2
It is just a matter of time before someone breaks the improved security in new mobile OS releases, and Georgia Tech researchers have now found a way to jailbreak the current version of iOS. Georgia Tech Information Security Center has a long track record of jail breaking iOS, giving them…
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GBA4iOS Deemed As The Best Game Boy Advanced Emulator for Apple’s Smartphones
It’s hard to find an original Game Boy nowadays or even buy games for it from a handful of 3DS eShops that still survived up until today. Game Boy fans have to resort to emulators in order to play their favourite old titles. Smartphones appear to have become the best…
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Individual App Locking With Touch ID Available Through AppLocker Jailbreak Tweak
It was consistently rumored that Apple will introduce a fingerprint scanner with the iPhone 5S, and that did happen. However by default the Touch ID scanner is limited to either locking or unlocking the device or authorizing purchases through Apple’s content stores. Users would have liked the ability to secure…
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Latest iOS 7 Jailbreak Release To Lack Cydia, Has TaiG Chinese Alternative Instead
Following the release of Evad3rs’ new iOS 7 jailbreak for all iOS 7.x versions including 7.0.4, we now hear that it is not as expected. Meaning, the jailbreak posted on Evasi0n does not include a Cydia build in the jailbreak software, but a chinese alternative instead. @saurik posted a series…
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iOS 7.0.4 Jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch From Evasi0n Has Been Released
The Evasi0n 7, iOS 7.0.4 jailbreak for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch has just been released, and just in time for Christmas Too! The move is quite surprising since we are just a few days away from Christmas and nobody thought we were going to see something like this…
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