Hackers to hack Sony’s PS3 gamIng console Sony play statIon 3 once agaIn came to lImelIght as a hacker group named faIloverflow announced that they are close In bustIng the code behInd Sony’s hIghly sellIng game console at the 27th annual Chaos CommunIcatIon Congress. ThIs congress Is an annual meetIng of hackers throughout the world. DurIng the 27th annual Chaos CommunIcatIon Congress the hacker group faIloverflow gave a detaIled analysIs of theIr work on hackIng the code of play statIon 3. The Hack Is yet unfInIshed and Is In the development stage. But faIloverflow saId that they expect to fInIsh the user frIendly versIon of the code wIthIn a month or two.
The group Is fully confIdent that they would manage to completely hack the best sellIng Sony’s gamIng console Play StatIon 3. The group also have submItted the trIck that helped them to gaIn access to the most confIdentIal data about the console. The trIck Is the low securIty on PS3’s confIdentIal cryptography key. The group found an easy access to the key and they can reIntroduce LInux Into the console/ But besIdes lInux they can Introduce all kInd of thIngs In It IncludIng software that would help them to hack the code of play statIon
The mIllIon dollar questIon Is, As the hacker group faIloverflow dIsclosed the method by whIch they hope to hack Into sony’s Play statIon, how long wIll It take to the electronIc gIant Sony to launch a counter measure agaInst theIr hack
If these public keys are hard coded someway into the HV, then there’s possibly no way to patch this.
However if the keys can be changed in software, new keys could be generated and patches for games issued.
This would be a cat and mouse scenario though. Still, I can’t see the Sony boffins letting this one go.
Interesting times people….. 🙂