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 ...

"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 ...

[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 ...

A Canadian businessman has been lumbered with a Canadian $52,359.59 (US $43,000) phone bill after a hacker broke into his voicemail system and spent nearly three weeks making phone calls to Bulgaria.

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 ...

In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes. That practice, known as phreaking, involved ...

Eavesdropping by picking up the electromagnetic emissions from a CRT screen and duplicating its images. In the 1980s, Dutch researcher Wim van Eck proved this was viable. The term Van Eck Phreaking ...

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 ...