iPhone jailbreak: 5 Apps to control your privacy

If you really want to protect your data, there's only one way to do it: jailbreak your iPhone.

By Ian Paul | 24 February, 2012 05:21

Tags: Apple, apps, consumer electronics, Google, hacks, hewlett-packard, iPhone, Microsoft, Phones, privacy, research in motion, security, smartphones

Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness

Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).

By Mark Gibbs | 16 December, 2011 12:27

Tags: cooking, email, Food, gmail, Google, hacking, hacks, IMAP, intrusion, recipes, security, software

10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon

Hack week in Vegas

During the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas last week, researchers wheeled out their best new attacks on everything from browsers to automobiles, demonstrating ingenuity and diligence in circumventing security efforts or in some cases in exploiting systems that were built without security in mind. Here's a handful of the ones that deserve the most concern.

By Tim Greene | 18 August, 2011 23:45

Tags: blackhat, Defcon, Facebook, hacks, privacy, SAP flaw, siemens s7

The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

In honor of Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek!

By Alessondra Springmann | 26 May, 2010 03:14

Tags: CPUs, games, geeks, Google Android, hacks, pc components, robots, smartphones