{"id":5476,"date":"2011-04-25T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2023-12-07T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:58:06","slug":"custom-firmware-to-blame-for-psn-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/custom-firmware-to-blame-for-psn-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Firmware to blame for PSN shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ready for some good news\/bad news? Well the good news is that we may be closer to finding out what&#8217;s really going on with Sony&#8217;s PSN, the bad news, we may not be out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following excerpt comes from Reddit user, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/chesh420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chesh420<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Ok, I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of speculation of why people think PSN is down, and I thought I should just post what the community knows in comparison to what Sony is telling everyone. The truth is, there was a new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug (<a href=\"http:\/\/rebug.me\/\">http:\/\/rebug.me<\/a>). It essentially turns a retail console into a dev console (not fully, but gives you a lot of the same options that usually dev&#8217;s only have access to)&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Not that big of a deal, right? Well, it also turns out that some people over at NGU found out that you could provide fake CC# info and the authenticity of the information was never checked as you were on Sony&#8217;s private developer PSN network (essentially a network that Sony trusted).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Although no one has claimed to have accessed PSN users&#8217; credit card information, the fact that such a breach had occurred in the first place isn&#8217;t really the most reassuring. It&#8217;s been 4 days since many users have been able to access PSN and with each bit of news, hype, assumptions that come out, consumers &#8211; like myself aren&#8217;t too thrilled with SCEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully the new servers that chesh420 referred to in his Reddit post are a lot more secure than what PSN users are stuck with now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thanks for the tip Jimmy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/gx6o4\/im_a_moderator_over_at_psxscenecom_the_real\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New leaks suggest PSN outage may be linked to hacked developer network, raising security concerns. 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