MITIGATE Seminar announces Daniel Burrus to join six city Australian tour.

MITIGATE Seminar announces six city Australian tour featuring Kevin Mitnick

The wait for an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is finally over, with French hacker Pod2G and the Dev Team hackers releasing a jailbreak tool called “Absinthe”, which is indeed a form of “greenpois0n”.

Web articles from dubious sounding sources may well be promising that full jailbreaks and unlocks for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are available, but they’re still scams, with French hacker “pod2g” showing photos of jailbroken 2 and 4S devices and promising public availability is still “coming soon”.

RIM’s status as a super-secure provider of email access has been dented a little thanks to news of a hack that could allow a very organised hacker to target a non-tech savvy Playbook user and read their emails and calendar entries, while the RIM sale rumours keep on coming, with Samsung fingered as the latest potential buyer.

Yet another security company dusts off the crystal ball.  Here's what Kaspersky Labs sees in the year ahead.

With so many breaches being reported on a better-than-daily basis, it is becoming impossible to know whether the 'lads' have our authentication details.  Here's a way to check.

RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger software is helping rioters stay co-ordinated in their efforts to cause serious mayhem in London, but with calls for Messenger to be blocked, could a genuinely useful technology be hobbled by calls for greater security?

Rupert Murdoch’s woes continue as his UK newspaper, The Sun, is hacked by Lulzsec with a fake story falsely claiming Rupert Murdoch passed away overnight at the age of 80 through the intake of “palladium”.

Predictions that 2011 would be the year of malware and cybercrime have certainly panned out, with the website of Australia’s SBS TV network the latest to suffer hacker infiltration.