Articles Tagged “Hack”

Android Targeted By Trojan Hack

by Aerol Bibat on Aug 29, 2011 1 Comments">1

Not to alarm you but Android malware is steadily on the rise. This is mostly prompted by the fact that the OS has become a massively popular mobile platform. Digital troublemakers know that the best place to wreak havoc is where there are a lot of users, and Android is just the place to be for them. Recently, researchers have managed to detect the most dangerous Android malware example yet discovered. It’s a Trojan that exploits the ‘GingerBreak’ root hack that was discovered last April. The flaw is found in Android 2.3 and will most likely target smartphones, though tablets using the OS …

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‘Def Con’ Conference reveals Android vulnerabilities

by James Tromans on Aug 02, 2010 0 Comments">0

At a recent software security conference called Def Con, Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs, basically revealed how easy it is for an Android hacker to grab hold of your personal information, SMS, make calls and even grab your location. The whole thing allegedly took them two weeks to build. “There are people who are much more motivated to do these things than we are,” he added. The actual phones used in the demonstration of the attack took place on HTC Legend and Desire smartphones. Of course, the point is that it could be conducted on any Android phones. According …

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Overclock your Motorola DROID to 1.0 GHz

by Susan Ellery on Jan 28, 2010 0 Comments">0

DROID owners that don’t mind voiding warranties can head over to areacellphone.com and following the nine step process to overclock your DROID. The process requires you to root your device and flash your phone with the aptly named evilboot8.img to overclock your DROID to 800MHz, evilboot9.img to reach 900MHz or evilboot1g.img for blazing 1GHz. As with any hack that modifies the stock system, proceed with caution and do so at your own risk. [via Phone Arena]

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Root comes to the Motorola Milestone

by Susan Ellery on Jan 19, 2010 0 Comments">0

The Motorola Milestone joins the ranks of “rooted” Android devices as the first successful root of the European variant of the DROID has been demonstrated by SeraphimSerapis of Android-Hilfe.de. Similar to the DROID, the process of rooting the Milestone is drop dead easy with a user simply applying an update.zip file during boot. Now that root has been achieved, Milestone owners can look forward to all sorts of hackery and rooting goodness to come their way. Welcome to the club! [via Engadget]

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Add multi-touch to the DROID web browser via the Milestone

by Susan Ellery on Jan 04, 2010 0 Comments">0

DROID owners clamoring for some multi-touch like their European counterparts should take a close look at a lively discussion over at AllDroid. Apparently, member t3hSteve was able to hack the multi-touch enabled browser of the Motorola Milestone onto the Motorola DROID. The hack is not for the faint of heart as it requires a rooted device and some familiarity with adb but if you are up for the task, a enviable multi-touch browsing experience will be your just reward. Hit the jump for a short video of the pinch and zoom in action. [via Gizmodo]

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Motorola Cliq rooted, custom ROMs coming soon

by Susan Ellery on Dec 23, 2009 3 Comments">3

And another one bites the dust – fresh out of the modmymoto forums is news that the Motorola Cliq has been rooted. As is the case with freshly rooted devices, the root is merely proof of concept and offers no practical advantage to the average user, at least not yet. TheDudesAndroid, who posted up the instructions for rooting, is working on a custom Android 1.5 ROM and possibly an Android 2.1 port. Rooting, ROMs, and the removal of MOTOBLUR – Good things to come for all you Cliq owners out there! [via Gizmodo and RedmondPie]

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Motorola DROID gets multi-touch via the Motorola Milestone

by Susan Ellery on Dec 17, 2009 2 Comments">2

Thanks to some hard work by the members of AllDroid forums, Motorola DROID owners who are not afraid of flashing can look forward to adding multi-touch to their handset in the very near future. With a little bit of hacking, the multi-touch capable firmware of the Motorola Milestone, the European version of the DROID, has been ripped and successfully ported to the DROID. After making a video showcasing their triumph, the most worthy hackers are focusing their efforts on producing a cooked ROM so we all can share in this multi-touch goodness. Their video showcasing two-finger pinch and zoom is …

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The Motorola DROID has been rooted

by Susan Ellery on Dec 08, 2009 1 Comments">1

It took little over a month but the mighty Motorola DROID has been rooted. The news broke over at AllDroid forums with member embeem posting up the necessary files and the instructions for rooting. For those ready to install all those wonderful apps available only to rooted devices, slow down a bit as rooting, at this point, is not beneficial to the average consumer. It is more a proof of concept that it can be done. You root because you can, not because you can do anything with it. The future is where the excitement lies as it won’t be …

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Expert: Android security hole so bad, browser use should be avoided

by Michael Oryl on Feb 12, 2009 2 Comments">2

ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez points out a Forbes story about a security hole in the Android OS platform that is so severe, multiple security experts are claiming that the Android web browser had best be avoided until a fix is sent out to users. A fix that, Sarah Perez claims, has been available for some time, sitting in Google’s source tree repository since February 7th. According to the original Forbes piece, the security flaw is supposedly found in code that Packet Video contributed to the Android project’s web browser. The flaw would allow a malicious website and hacker to take over …

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Browser security issues anyone?

by Nicholas Ahn on Nov 25, 2008 2 Comments">2

Apparently, a bunch of users at Android Community are experiencing a hack that redirects them from the Yahoo! homepage to a site that sells anti-virus software. Are you experiencing this as well? Leave a comment below! One of the main concerns of Android being open-source is the security. In the future, we hope that Google will be able to identify and deal with these issues before these exploits become widespread and cause any real damage. [via Android Community]

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Google Android running on an HTC Touch Dual

by Darcy LaCouvee on Apr 13, 2008 0 Comments">0

It seems that the guys over at XDA Developers, a Windows Mobile centric hack/developer site, have managed to get Android running on a number of HTC devices. Leah Geary of Coolsmartphone has it running on his HTC Touch Dual and has posted a number of videos of it working. It took a number of reboots and such, he says, but hey – it works. Which, of course, makes everybody wonder, if a bunch of random guys can plug away and get it working, how hard could it be for HTC to do it?

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