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One April 12 report described hackers using the jailbroken firmware to access the dev-PSN to get back on games like Call of Duty, with widespread reports of cheating. [20] While some sources blamed Rebug for the subsequent intrusion to Sony's private developer network, Time 's "Techland" described such theories as "highly—as in looking down ...
We just saw how you can now add an Install Package Files option to the PS3 using some custom firmware, but that darn hacker George "Geohot" Hotz has taken it a step further by demonstrating ...
A PS Jailbreak USB dongle. PlayStation 3 Jailbreak was the first USB (Universal Serial Bus) chipset that allowed unauthorized execution of code, similar to homebrew, on the PlayStation 3.
George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, [1] and software engineer.He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, [2] [3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony.
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the 2011 PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 7.7 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
OtherOS is a feature of early versions of Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 3 video game console, allowing user installed software, such as Linux or FreeBSD.Software running in the OtherOS environment has access to 6 of the 7 Synergistic Processing Elements. [1]
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had already built a cluster based on the PlayStation 2. [2] Terra Soft Solutions released Yellow Dog Linux for the PlayStation 3, [3] and sold PS3s with it pre-installed, [4] in single units and in 8 and 32 node clusters. [5] RapidMind developed a stream programming package for the PS3. [6]
Homebrew was since re-enabled on any Xbox 360 with dash 2.0.7371.0 or lower via an exploit referred to as the JTAG / SMC hack but was promptly patched again by Microsoft with the 2.0.8495.0 update. Homebrew has now become available on most Xbox 360 consoles due to the Reset Glitch Hack. It works on all current dashboards up to the latest revision.