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Latest iPhone Mods

AppleiPhone modifcations - This list will be updated as new mods are made public
1. Install SSHD & Apache: See natetrue.com, or ifastnet.com (easier)

2. Laptop Tethering: From cre.ations.net

3. Custom Ring Tones: Easy Mac instructions or harder windows instructions

4. Change the iPhone's icons: From:hacktheiphone.com

5. Use the iPhone without activation: DVD Jon's activation crack

6. VNC from your iPhone:WinVNC/WebVNC for windows or AjaxVNC for OSX

7. Access Field Test Mode: Enter *3001#12345#* then hit call.

8. Nintendo emulator for Apple's iPhone

9. Instructions to unlock the phone and use it with a provider other then at&t here or here

10. Simple gui app to unlock the iPhone anySIM from the Iphone Dev Team

11. Installer.app is a UIKit based package manager for the iPhone. It works by downloading packages over WiFi (wireless networking) or EDGE. It supports installing, updating and uninstalling applications from multiple sources.

12. SummerBoard is an extension to the iPhone's SpringBoard user experience. SummerBoard adds a variety of useful and fun features to your iPhone, including scrolling icons, wallpaper and themes.

13. HD Moore to develop Metasploit frame work for the iPhone. .

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The Apple wireless hack

AppleAccording to a recent infoworld.com article a Non disclosure agreement that was preventing David Maynor from releasing the details of a wireless attack against Apple Computers is now no longer valid. As such David has released a paper on uninformed.org describing the attack in detail.

See uninformed.org to read the paper.

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When iPhones attack!

AppleUpdate 07/22/07: Duke University said yesterday that widely publicized problems with its campus wireless network it had originally blamed on Apple Inc. iPhones had instead been traced to Cisco Systems Inc. hardware. See article at computer world
It’s been widely reported now (thanks to Network World for the poor fact checking) that the iPhone has downed over 30 access points on the Duke University network due to a continued flood of ARP packets.

Here are some questions I have for the Admins at Duke:

1. How do you know the iPhone is causing the flood? A fairly old attack against switches to be able to sniff packets going over the switch involves overloading a switches CAM table. This is done by flooding a switch with bogus arp traffic with many different source mac addresses. See: Packet Sniffingon Layer 2 Switched also see winArpAttacker - a window tool that will perform these attacks

2. Is it possible you have a bridging loop? In the case of loops and arp packets, your system may broadcast a single ARP packet but the bridging loop causes it to appear many times over, hence your routers (and WiFi controllers) would spend lots of time replying to the same request. Do you have Spanning tree protocol disabled? For more info on bridging loops see: wildpackets.com

Its funny how we take Duke at there word, I personally own an iPhone. I’ve connected it to many wireless networks and found that it has always performed as expected. I’ve also used ARP cache poising against the device using Cain and Abel. I found that each time I performed the attack on the iPhone, the iPhone simply disassociated from the wireless network.I'd imagine that on seeing an arp flood on the Duke network those iPhones would also disassociate.

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oh Look apple worm

AppleFrom: http://infosecsellout.blogspot.com

"This is for you all Apple fans, please be aware that there are no such thing as full proof system and stop been all crazy about it. Sure Apple builds cool computers but stop ignoring the truth.

Please follow this link: http://www.securityfocus.com


Enough. It's bad enough that this supposed worm author intends to release a fully functional worm based on an undisclosed vulnerability (ethics anyone?), but where's the proof? Shame on securityfocus for including this in there database with zero proof.
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Apple airport Extreme Update 2007-002 Breaks WPA

AppleMarch 8th 2007 Apple realeased Airport Extreme Update 2007-002. It has been my personal experience that this update, when applied to an intel core duo mac book pro will break WPA encryption.This causes loss of network connectivity. Connections to non-WPA based network with the patch applied functions normally.
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SecureWorks Mac Falsification

AppleFrom Tuaw.com

Remember those hackers in the Washington Post story who claimed to have hacked a MacBook's wireless drivers to gain control of it? Then remember the follow-up story where the author, Brian Krebs basically, um, how shall I say: 'slightly falsified' his way through backing up the original story with excuses that the flaw does exist in Apple's drivers, but Apple 'leaned' on them not to publicize this so they decided to use a 3rd party card? Finally, remember how, in the original article, David Maynor, one of the hackers, is quoted saying "We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something." Boy, that sure doesn't betray any sense of 'I am going to lie, cheat and steal to prove whatever I want' bitterness, does it?

See entire article by David Chartier at www.tuaw.com

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Run OSX on an Intel Mac

Applehttp://onmac.net/ has ended its contest for a the first working solution to running windows on an intel mac. According to the site Blanka and Narf came up with the solution and won almost 14,000.00 . There solution posted in downloadable form is avalable at http://onmac.net/
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New apple devices

AppleHas apple created a new PDA device and updated the Ipod video?

According to articles floating around the rumor mill (see ARS Technica) Apple is in the process of acquiring Palm. Also, Apple has recently patented what seems to look a lot like a tablet based touch screen Mac see macobserver.com. Note apple has been including handwriting technology know as Inkwell into its latest operating system see Apple.com To further suspicion ThinkSecret has complete details of a touch screen based ipod that no longer uses the click wheel, but instead uses a touch screen. Which will keep the ipod itself the same size, but allow for much larger screen sizes. Engadget.com has posted actual illustrations of the tablet device . And Worldofapple.com has posted an actual video demonstration of the touch screen capabilities of the new devices.

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NEW VIDEO IPOD needs Demuxing Q&A

AppleHey Guys! I'm hoping you can give me good news!

I have many many Video MPG files that i'm trying to transfer to the new Video Ipod.

However when you export these files via Quicktime Pro, you get Video but NO Audio which is very frusterating.

Will your link help this problem? when exporting files via Quicktime Pro they turn into M4V files. I need audio though for my videos that I made with my digital camera [which are MPG files]

Any info at all would very helpful!
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Glenn, check out the following document:
http://www.topsight.net/downloads/Transcode2iPod.doc

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Run OSX on a PC ?

AppleAccording to a video posted on hardmac.com, OSX_x86 has been fully cracked see: http://www.hardmac.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2005-08-10#4354