Posted by Pirate
, on 03/03/2010
Remember the rumor a few days ago that Sony may remove the OtherOS feature on non-slim PS3's in future firmware update? Well Geoff Levand, PS3-Linux maintainer, has gotten confirmation from SCE that the feature will NOT be removed in future firmware upda [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 02/03/2010
Demonhades has posted today progress/findings of the PS3 hypervisor and boostrap (lvl0/level1).
To quote:
For those who bear on our community and this study shall know the hypervisor and bootstrap, but for new and newcomers who want to know about [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 28/02/2010
A widespread crash has occured today for "phat" PS3 users resulting in a "8001050F" error.
Here are the symptoms to this problem:
Can not connect to PSN
"Hardware failure. Cannot update Firmware or connect to Internet"
Cannot enter any BR gam [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 24/02/2010
xorloser has released his PS3 HV Dump setup script for IDA which "setups function tables including the hypercall (syscall) table, mmcall table, OPD, TOC, GOT. It will find common functions such as puts and printf and very importantly it will fixup all rto [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 19/02/2010
Now this is a nasty rumor to be awoken to, just as the scene finally broke down the hypervisor security, we now hear rumors that Sony is planning to block OtherOS support via next PS3 firmware update.
Owen Stampflee Linux Product Manager for Fixstars C [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 15/02/2010
SKFU has stumbled across a new patent for a method to protect against encrypted section attacks
To quote from SKFU blog and patent below:
Recently a new patent by a SONY employee was published on the patent site at faqs.org. It seems it is SONY's an [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 13/02/2010
PS3 Hacker CJPC has managed to dump the PS3 hypervisor and LV1 and Bootloader LV0 via PS3 RAM. He has provided a brief explanation of what he did and a download file to the exploit can be found in the VIA link:
We are happy to report that the PS3 Hy [...]
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Posted by Pirate
, on 07/02/2010
A few days ago we told you about how to use Geohots exploit via software, today xorloser has posted up his latest tutorial teaching us how to do it via hardware.
To quote:
The purpose of the hardware is to stop the PS3 from saving a change to a v [...]
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Xorloser has released his complete the PS3 exploit toolkit software called XorHack. XorHack allows you to call lv1 syscalls (level 1 system calls) from a normal (userspace) program. It also lets you run the software required when triggering the PS3 exploi [...]
Today GeoHot brings more updates from his blog and twitter about his PS3 work, to quote: Today I verified my theories about running the isolated SPUs as crypto engines. I believe that defeats the last technical argument against the PS3 being hacked. [...]