RIM's PlayBook hacked, patched, hacked again

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Last week, security researchers posted a video showing a successful BlackBerry PlayBook hack, exploiting a security hole in Research in Motion's enterprise level security encryption and granting users root access to the system.

RIM responded to the jailbreaking of its tablet by claiming it was just the PlayBook and not the firm's phones which had been compromised, promising to investigate the issue.

The BlackBerry PlayBook's operating system is based on software from QNX, which upcoming BlackBerry smartphones will also be running on.

The researchers, led by main hacker "Neuralic" decided to take the experiment a step further, releasing the jailbreak tool –known as Dingleberry-- to the public, via Twitter.

RIM quickly released an OTA update to fix the security breach, but within hours of the patch, Neuralic's hack squad had jailbroken it again, releasing an updated version of Dingleberry to the public for download.
On Wednesday (Dec. 7) morning, hacker Chris Wade posted that there had been 14581 downloads of the PlayBook jailbreak thus far.



RIM's PlayBook hacked, patched, hacked again