PSN DOWN WTF?!1
- Thread starter D.I.N.O
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Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
As hilarious as that would be, don't sweat it. One way or another I doubt that'll happen. If you're that worried, come over to Xbox live?
voodoo_ec
[08] Mercenary
They've hired some external security professionals to look into the issue anyway, so hopefully they can give the new PSN a better security framework. As for the cause of the issues, it could lie with:
a) anonymous, but after having talked to them on IRC, that seems unlikely,
b) the Rebug CFW development which allowed mapping from the SP-INT ( Dev servers) to the retail unit servers ( though this was largely limited to select titles, usually Call.of...), though using Rebug it is true that CC verifications were skipped ( as confirmed by Math in a tweet ,http://twitter.com/#!/mathieulh),
C) it was discovered a few weeks ago that each time the ps3 boots and connects to the PSN, it sends data to sony in plaintext ( ie not encrypted, http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga ) so, its likely that gave hackers an idea or two... in light of some research done by SKFU ( http://www.ps3hax.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/psnlog.jpg) , it is suggested that the vulnerability analysis began perhaps in february ( agreed by http://www.ps3hax.net/2011/04/psn-and-credit-card-info-stolen-in-early-feburary/ )... it seems that [DNS] Canonical: a65.197.244.172.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com Numerical: 65.197.244.172 (aka psn) needs to be looked into.
I'm hoping that it isn't a big Sony conspiracy, but im thinking that Sony wouldn't bring this sort of attention on themselves so quickly. Anyways, i'll see you will my 1A happy sophitia in 1 bar ranked when its back online huh, seems like a great way to welcome a new PSN.
a) anonymous, but after having talked to them on IRC, that seems unlikely,
b) the Rebug CFW development which allowed mapping from the SP-INT ( Dev servers) to the retail unit servers ( though this was largely limited to select titles, usually Call.of...), though using Rebug it is true that CC verifications were skipped ( as confirmed by Math in a tweet ,http://twitter.com/#!/mathieulh),
C) it was discovered a few weeks ago that each time the ps3 boots and connects to the PSN, it sends data to sony in plaintext ( ie not encrypted, http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga ) so, its likely that gave hackers an idea or two... in light of some research done by SKFU ( http://www.ps3hax.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/psnlog.jpg) , it is suggested that the vulnerability analysis began perhaps in february ( agreed by http://www.ps3hax.net/2011/04/psn-and-credit-card-info-stolen-in-early-feburary/ )... it seems that [DNS] Canonical: a65.197.244.172.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com Numerical: 65.197.244.172 (aka psn) needs to be looked into.
I'm hoping that it isn't a big Sony conspiracy, but im thinking that Sony wouldn't bring this sort of attention on themselves so quickly. Anyways, i'll see you will my 1A happy sophitia in 1 bar ranked when its back online huh, seems like a great way to welcome a new PSN.