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You may have heard of different naughty surprises that came with firmware 3.00, and you may ask what the hell this has to do with me? you may also wonder about the future of VHBL and TN-V4, I’m gonna tap on that here, but I’m also gonna explain why I think Sony has made a huge dumb mistake.
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The release of Vita firmware 3.00 earlier today brought several new features that The Z described to us here, but also the fear that some of the many exploits existing within the PSP emulator of the Vita would be patched.
My friend Jd8531 just wrote an article, that the new Firmware 3.00 will be released very soon, and there it is.
The PS Vita Firmware 3.00 is now LIVE (In the USA and Europe atleast), and adds a bunch of new functions and stuff. Let’s take a look at it.
Tags: eCFW, exploit, firmware, PS vita, ps4, PSN, PSVita, release, security, Sony
According to the official Facebook page of PlayStation Turkey, firmware 3.00 will be coming to the Vita tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »
Some of you might say ‘ps3 scene isn’t as good as psp scene’ or ‘i’ve had more fun with my portable console than with the one on my living room’. Well, that may change in the near future, as two interesting things surface on the ps3 scene.
Developer SKFU just released PS4 FW Tool 1.00. We’ve mentioned recently that scene hackers have jumped on the new PS4 firmwares released by Sony recently, investigating them. SKFU’s release here is the logical continuity of these initial investigations, adding a GUI to the investigation work and scripts that were written initially.
If you’ve been living under a rock, TN-V4 is Total Noob’s upcoming hack for the Playstation Vita. Now before those not in the know get too excited, this is a kernel exploit inside the PSP emulator of the Vita, not a vita hack per se. But it offers a lot already, and is probably the most awaited release on the Vita scene for this year.
I had the opportunity to have a great little chat with total Noob, to discuss his work. He was nice enough to disclose some cool new features for his exploit, as well as his planned release schedule.
Before the PS4 is even officially out, Sony announced a firmware update a few days ago. Hackers who have been closely monitoring what’s going on with the PS4 are already looking into those files to understand what’s going on. It’s not unusual for early console firmwares to have bugs, sometimes big enough to lead to exploits, so it’s not a surprise that these early patches from Sony are being monitored.
Nearly 2 years after its release, the PS Vita, just like the PS3 years ago, has proven a tough nut to crack for hackers. Although this site provides the community with regular exploits within the PSP emulator of the PS Vita, only a handful of people have had their hand on a native hack (such as YifanLu’s UVL, for which the exploit vector was, apparently, patched later on by Sony).
This has left may of us with the feeling that hackers are not interested in the Vita at all. and there’s a truth to that, which was expressed not so long ago by YifanLu, and even earlier by Fail0verflow (the guys behind the big PS3 hack in 2011) themselves (read: Fail0verflow: the end of Homebrews?).
Many hackers from the PSP and PS3 scenes have given Vita hack a try. And if what they told me is to be trusted, many of them have given up: “too hard”, “no point in hacking a portable console when we can do everything we want on smartphones”, etc… . In many aspects, most hackers I’ve talked to echo what YifanLu, Fail0verflow, or myself have said in the past.
Nevertheless, several of those hackers who have given up made it reasonably to a point where “things” could be possible. I cannot give proof for most of the following, either because I promised not to name names, or because those are rumors I didn’t get directly from the mouth of the horse, but here are the things I’ve been told by trusted sources, or witnessed myself. When necessary, I am being intentionally fuzzy to protect some of the critical information.
Recent discoveries show that the Tor bundle isn’t keeping you safe, and the NSA is actually able to watch you by a complex system of attacks. Read the rest of this entry »
Disclaimer: the technique described below was not found by me, I merely verified it worked. I am publishing this article because the “trick” involved here has now been corrected by Sony. I was also not able to know who initially found that flaw initially, so credits go to the person who contacted me about this, someone I’ll name NC.MA for now.
A few days ago I was contacted by a person who had been transmitted a way to get unlimited Playstation Plus membership for free. I could confirm it works. I could of course not confirm that the membership is actually unlimited, but the status of my test account seems to confirm it, and I could definitely download and play Playstation Plus games with the account I created for the test.
It is still one month, until the Playstation 4 will be available in the biggest parts of the world, but Sony already announced a firmware update for the Playstation 4, which will be released at the 15th Nov., the day the PS4 launches in the United States. But let us take a look at this new update.
Tags: 1.50, eCFW, Hacking, PS vita, ps4, Remote Play, Sony, TN, TN-V, Update, XMB
Ellen Page’s shower scene in Beyond Two Souls as seen on twinstickgaming.com
Probably, even while you read this article Sony is searching the web high and low in an effort to take down leaked images of a “nude” Ellen Page. Academy Award nominated actress Ellen Page, who until this day hasn’t appeared naked in any movie production is probably not pleased to see her naked likeness on the internets.
Tags: Beyond Two Souls, Ellen Page, exclusive, naked, Playstation, shower scene
There were 4 undisclosed exploits on Vita’s firmware 2.61, until Japanese developer 173210 kindly released his VHBL port, “reducing” the number to 3 “yet to be revealed” exploits. But we’re back to 4, as 173210 confirmed one of his other psp usermode exploits wasn’t patched yet.
With apparently the help from Qwikrazor87, famous for being involved in pretty much every single VHBL port nowadays, 173210 was able to port VHBL to his exploit fairly quickly.
Hardware German website computerbild.de got their hands on a Debug PS4. Codenamed the DUH-T1000AA, the device looks like a regular PS4, and it goes without saying that I’m extremely jealous (being in Japan, the chances for me to get one of those in the foreseeable future are slim, especially since Amazon US don’t seem to be getting any new stock yet) .
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