The folks over at the iphone-dev.org site are reporting they have a successful soft unlock for the iPhone 3G baseband. This means no physical modifications, no void warranties, and the freedom to choose whatever carrier you want.
They plan or releasing the unlock on New Year’s Eve (2008). I’ll wait and see how everyone else fairs with it before jumping in with both feet!
The unlock will require iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier and jailbroken.

(via zone-h)
ZMOG!! THE MITNICK GOTZ
OWNED!!
Is what read on the front page on four of Kevin Mitnick’s websites (defensivethinking.com, mitsec.com, kevinmitnick.com, mitnicksecurity.com). The target of Pakistani vandals. Mitnick’s hosting provider is Hoestedhere.net, who appears to be running Apache 1.3.34 on Linux with PHP 4.4.1 and FrontPage 5.0.2.2635 extensions. No word yeat on what attack vector they used.
This isn’t the first time one of Kevin’s sites was hacked. On Thursday January 30th 2003 and on Sunday February 23 2003 Kevin’s defensivethinking.com was hacked using, of all things, a n …