"Let's say a shopping center," says the hacker I'm talking to online. He's British, but is using an alias, 'Belial', and I don't know his real name. "The elevators or lifts inside have emergency ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have worked up a proof-of-concept demonstration of using an iPhone 4's accelerometer as a keylogger. After setting the iPhone near a computer keyboard, the device's ...

[Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd song of the same name. We suspect that, like us, that someone might ...

U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn sentenced Matthew Weigman, 19, of Massachusetts, to a total of 135 months for "swatting," a prank that gets its name by eliciting visits from the SWAT team.

Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had a brief and highly illegal business manufacturing and selling phone phreaking gear prior to founding Apple computer in 1976. Now one of the original ...

Hackers commonly replace the letter f with ph, a nod to the original form of hacking known as phone phreaking. Phreaking was coined by John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, who created the infamous Blue ...

Phreaking example The classic early example of phreaking was hacker John Draper’s use of cereal-box toy whistles which, when blown into a telephone handset, hit a pitch normally used by phone ...