Home servers could be forced offline by hackers?

British newspaper The Daily Telegraph has added its two cents to the tragic tale of PlayStation Home hacks.

If the paper is to be believed, "developers" have teased out loopholes in the code which allow them to customize their avatars, personal spaces and other paraphernalia beyond the presets. So, for instance, hackers might utilise "a combination of the Apache web server and DNS re-direction" to watch their own movies on display screens within Home, or change bits of text and music around. Another hack allows users to download files from the servers, including other people's avatars.

[pp]

Cool,Awesome,Great.

[ravinshield]

finally something good is happening on home

[butbutbuttehcell]

Well done Sony. Only took you forever to bring this out and it's already being abused

[SL1M DADDY]

What the hacker sees on his/her screen is not what others see. It only changes their stuff. Same with the avy hack and so on with the music hack. They only change the users machine code and not others. These hacks are "in other words" harmless.

[morganfell]

And this hacker business has already been debunked. It's nothing more than the press trying to find every possible way to pile of the PS3.

[morganfell]

BTW, NASA could be hacked, so could Crystal Mountain and NORAD. Barack Obama's Facebook account and your password to MidgetNaziHookers.com

[Anon1974]

They've got my password to MidgetNaziHookers.com? Bastards!

[whoelse]

Ah well free media coverage.

[Pizzagaki]

Pizzagaki has done research, Pizzagaki found out they can actually upload data to the Home server, and for instance replace the mini game arcades with porn video's, wich then can be enjoyed by all.

Be prepared to see some meatballs/taco's/salami's etch

[Panthers]

The dissagreers are out today...

This is a load of s**t though.

[ultimolu]

What the f...what's with the disagrees?

I guess people were just WAITING for something to come out so they can bash Home to death.

Do we even have hard evidence that Home is being hacked to begin with?

[Sayai jin]

@ultimolu- You are right, people were probably waiting for some negative news for Home to come out to bash it. But, hey this is N4G; almost every piece of hardware (PS3, 360, Wii), software, etc gets pummeled as soon as the first sign of bad news. So Hoe is not the first and it will definitely not be the last to get bashed.

[ultimolu]

...I don't understand this hatred for Sony and the PS3. It's even worse than the days of Nintendo.

[LokMessier]

Does the first original poster know that any server that is online can be thrown offline by hackers who abuse it or overload it?

To ultimolu:
I guess you can just say this could be construed as a case of 'favoring' one console gone to far and attacks against that console somehow 'help' in this 'console war'

[Sayai jin]

Yop, it is worse now. I do not understand all the hate. I have to many great games to enjoy to hate.

Game on...

[LoVeRSaMa]

Its not realy a hack, Changing how you see something isnt hacking anything.

There intercepting the HTML and XML information from Sony, and telling there PS3 something else, thus only viewable on there Screen, thats not a fu*king hack.

OMG PEOPLE CAN CHANGE HOW THEY LOOK ON THERE OWN SCREEN HOME IS DOOMED.

Get a life.

[Sayai jin]

@LokMessier- I agree. The sad thing is that there is hate shown at all three consoles and the software, programs associated. It's pointed towards Sony, MS, and even Ninty. Sometimes it's warranted and sometimes it not.

[LokMessier]

Yeah I could understand if it was more constructive vs just plain spiteful, but it always seems to be spite majority of the time.

Also LoVeRSaMa:
You know people if they can change one little thing that they shouldn't be allowed to change it has thus become a hack :p

[Pain]

=Well done Sony. Only took you forever to bring this out and it's already being abused

Same can be said for Vista...... http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/... , many times over..at 5 years development and how much money ?? yea... please stop talking...

[Sayai jin]

@Pain- What does this have to do with Vista? I mean they are not even the same thing. One is a application inside of another applications software and the other is an O/S. With that said, every piece of software can be exploited/hacked. So if Home is hacked, big deal as long as innocent user are not exploited.

[prowiew]

This could be good news to home. Maybe some hacks could make home good instead of boring.

[panasonic23]

man fvck hackers they always got ruined the fun

[chase-the-sunset]

why would they hack it?

just to break it?

fxcking do something constructive and hack bank accounts.
losers!

[Jpinter]

What is with all these people bashing Home. Its an evolving platform. Look at World of Warcraft...when it launched it was good...but look at it now. Sony is going to add soooo much content and there will be so much to do.

This hacker issue isnt really that big, and it will soon be easily put to sleep by Sony.

[DrWan]

I don't forsee any difficulty

[Capt CHAOS]

.

[pixelsword]

All the free accounts in the world won't matter.

...the way fanboys complain about the price, who among the whiners are gonna buy another one just to have that one banned as well?

[morganfell]

Free accounts have to have a master sponsor account. That is the account you ban.

[Lumbo]

"No paid account means it's easy to open a new account if you hack into or abuse home"

The SCEE PSN Manager already stated that they ban the PS3 from PSN, not a random PSN profile. Therefor your 1348348 PSN accounts are worth nothing as you need a new PS3 every time you get banned. Instantly transforming the "no paid account" into a "$400 account per try" thing.

[Sharpshell]

if you could do these thigns without hacking, like put up a movie file you want to play on your TV in your studio!

[Anon1974]

Then every second home could be showing porn, round the clock. Great idea.

Seriously, I think that would be cool as well to show your own movies but there's too much room for abuse. People went nuts when little Timmy saw a nipple at the superbowl. How do you think they'll act when they find little Timmy's visiting "johnson puppet theater" on his Playstation? And trust me, I know kids can just go online and see all this anyway in two mouse clicks (most kids these days have probably seen more porn than I have in 35 years) but that doesn't mean parents and the media won't go mental in salivating, carpet chewing rage if they get their hands on Home pulling porn duty.

[pixelsword]

Little Timmy went to his nuts when he saw the nipple.

Put his hands all on his nuts.

His peanuts.

Tasty!

[Scenarist]

even if they did show porn , its 18 + anyway to use home right?
correct me if im wrong tho

[tmoneymill]

If you remember the keynote last year, Phil was taking pictures and video with his cellphone and posting them up inside his Apt. So i think they are going in that direction. however, i think they still want to be able to monitor that themselves and use thier process. But, i dont think the days of logging into home and going to your friends apt and watching a movie full screen off of what they got going on their Home APT Tv are too far off

[Socomer 1979]

more lies.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Shut up and dance !

[Radiodread]

its a problem for 360 users also, there needs to be an end to this. SEND EM ALL TO PRISON FOREVER!!!!!!!!

[Socomer 1979]

shouldnt you 360 fans focus on the wii?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[kwyjibo]

Every server can be forced offline by hackers.

If your machine is on the internet, it can be killed remotely. I doubt a perfectly secure machine exists anywhere, even if an exploit isn't in the wild, they're just waiting to be found.

[Socomer 1979]

to bigger and better things.
take a look I think we are safe now.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Magic_The_Celt]

LMFAO

bubbles

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

but the other night I noticed something creepy. I seen a avatar walking around the bowling alley without a head, but the earrings were still suspended in midair. Looked odd and it wasn't that the head was glitching or anything, but it just wasn't there.

I've also seen people being able to slide while doing emotes in HOME. It was like the oh so familiar weapon slide looking glitch in Gears, but only in HOME.

Haven't seen anything critical yet, but I can already tell people are trying hard to find the flaws!

[LokMessier]

-Slow Loading
-Nothing loaded and they didn't "refresh"

That no head thing was also a persistent problem the first day open beta happened,

[pixelsword]

1. The PS3 is very hard to hack

http://www.ps3center.net/ar...

2. Sony also is known to use other PS3's for their servers.

http://www.engadget.com/200...

Ergo, you can't hack home if they use PS3's for their servers.

Which, given the fanboyism this gen, I can't see Sony NOT using PS3's for their own servers.

The end.

[Pizzagaki]

Pizzagaki hates to foul someone's pasta, but the home server is not a ps3, Ps3 is a console, not a server, the PS3 plays the client, the service is installed on an actual server.

[Lumbo]

Pizzagaki seems to have lost the power of google...

http://www.joystiq.com/2007...

Voila, PS3 used as server..

[chase-the-sunset]

haha
bubbles!

[Citizen Cook]

Oh well, sucks to be you droids...

[Magic_The_Celt]

And the Xbox 360 should have been as secure as the PS3

PS3 remains game chip free

look at all the 360's playing torrent games haha sucks to be microsoft

[Nicolator]

already its being hacked to bits.. hope sony is doing something to stop this b4 all hell breaks loose