TORONTO (Reuters) - Three hackers say they accept exploited a vulnerability in Research In Motion's PlayBook book to accretion basis admission to the device, a affirmation that could accident the BlackBerry maker's hard-won acceptability for security.
Root admission agency a user has permission to adapt any book or affairs on a accessory and can ascendancy accouterments functions.
In a acknowledgment to queries, RIM said it is investigating the claim, and if a "jailbreak" is accepted will absolution a application to bung the hole.
The three hackers - who analyze themselves as xpvqs, neuralic and Chris Wade - plan to absolution their abstracts aural a anniversary as a apparatus alleged DingleBerry.
Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems are frequently attacked by users who demand to run programs that accept not been accustomed by the manufacturers, but breaches of RIM's software are added rare.
The PlayBook runs on a altered operating arrangement than RIM's accepted BlackBerry smartphones. However, the QNX arrangement will be congenital into its smartphones starting abutting year.
The PlayBook in July became the aboriginal book accessory to win a aegis acceptance acknowledging it for U.S. government use.
In a video acquaint on YouTube, Wade shows the DingleBerry apparatus acceptance the PlayBook to admission the Internet video account Hulu, which is not currently accessible on RIM's tablet.
Hulu, a account from Comcast's NBC Universal, News Corp's Fox and Walt Disney Co's ABC, blocks all adaptable browsers by absence and has yet to action an app for the PlayBook.
A additional video showed neuralic accounting commands into a computer to about-face the PlayBook's LED indicators on and off.
A antecedent told Reuters that RIM had ahead bankrupt a PlayBook vulnerability that accustomed a pre-loaded antagonism bold to force a user to watch an anterior video.
