Three days after its launch, the new iPad had been hacked in three different ways

A group of iOS hackers have released a free jailbreaking tool for the Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2

The latest jailbreak tool for Apple's mobile devices takes advantage of flaws in the current iOS5 binary and kernel

The Microsoft approved jailbreak tool for Windows Phone 7 has reached its 10,000 download limit

RIM is playing a patching game with jailbreakers who have re-hacked the PlayBook just after it was fixed

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking for legal loopholes to protect users who jailbreak smartphones or video game consoles

Research in Motion is investigating claims that hackers have 'rooted' its Playbook tablet

Android coders have successfully rooted the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to allow for its customisation

Malware targeting Android "Gingerbread" uses jailbreak exploit for root access to run remote instructions

Apple has patched iOS to stop the installation of JailbreakMe - but hackers claim to circumvented it already