The many governments around the world are facing a growing concern as the internet gains more popularity and becomes more accessible. You need to provide information or access to services or devices to many different locations across your country or the world, and the only way to do this is through private networks and the internet.

As the title states, a Senior Security Consultant by the name of Nick Breese is using a PS3 to crack MD5 hashes. Aside from this article incorrectly stating that the security expert is stealing passwords, as of now he has only shown how fast the machines can process MD5 hashes. This is just a small glimpse of what the software and hardware can do, the article compares how many cycles can be completed using Vector Computing:

Another hacker finds a way to cause some trouble within eBay's system, using an old administration system.

Hacker exploits forgotten eBay administrative system - A hacker disabled an assortment of eBay user accounts on Friday after gaining access to the vestigial components of an old eBay administrative system.Read More...

It looks as though its not going to be that easy to hack up the 1.1.1 Firmware on the iPhone as it was with the 1.0.2 firmware. Right now it looks like you can jailbreak the phone but not unlock it. Apple has a good product here, why hinder the use of it and the ever growing third party apps?

iPhone, iPod touch v1.1.1 jailbroken, apps ported and running - Filed under: Cellphones