The only threat is just to Sony’s security risk,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. “No harm will come to the hardware though. The hack will be a nuisance that Sony engineers will likely block to ensure no additional threats to its ecosystem and network. The team will help those who are interested to “get it hooked up/debugged if needed,” but those who want free games should “go away.” Those who are can “write an exploit, point it to our loader and you’ll get Linux,” Marcan added. The hacking team isn’t interested in piracy or free games from the exploit. The ability to run a modification “was the way to go for the PS4,” said Marcan. The PlayStation 4 is based on the x86 architecture. The hackers used exploits in FreeBSD, PS4’s operating system and WebKit, which powers the game console’s browser.īoth the OS and browser are open source and vulnerable to security exploits, according to Marcan, a member of failOverflow. The demo was part of a lightning talk session at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress. Hacking team fail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony’s PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance.

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