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Google Engineers Hacked The PlayStation Portal And Turned It Into A PSP Emulator

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Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is designed to stream games from your PS5, but that hasn’t stopped Google engineers from hacking the device to run emulated PSP games. Google security engineer Calle Svensson and cloud vulnerability researcher Andy Nguyen showed off some of their work on X/Twitter, revealing a PlayStation Portal running the PSP version of Grand Theft Auto 3 through the PPSSPP emulator.

Nguyn added in a second tweet that the hack is entirely software-based, allowing the engineers to exploit vulnerabilities in the handheld without needing to change its hardware. Don’t expect this hack to go public, as Nguyen said there are currently no plans to release it.

Sony has only released a few consoles of the portable variety over the years, as it ventured into this market with the PSP in 2004 and followed it up with the PS Vita in 2011. Each handheld console received several revisions over the years, but the PlayStation Portal takes a different approach to stand out from competitor devices like the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, and ROG Ally. Combining a sharp display with DualSense-inspired controllers, the PlayStation portal streams games from your PS5 over wi-fi and was launched late last year.

“With a limited use-case and inconsistent performance from remote play, as well as the way it rarely takes advantage of the PS5 ecosystem, the PlayStation Portal is tough to recommend,” Michael Higham wrote in GameSpot’s PlayStation Portal hands-on feature. “If the PS5 is your primary gaming platform, and if you have a strong internet connection throughout your home, and if you’re in situations where you’re eager to play PS5 games without access to the TV the console is connected to, then you’ll get plenty of use out of the Portal.”

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Insomniac: PlayStation studio 'angered' by ransomware hack

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PlayStation studio Insomniac said its team was “saddened and angered” by the recent “criminal cyberattack”. Employee data, company emails and early details of an upcoming Wolverine game were among …

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Teen hacker pleads guilty in cyberattack that targeted PlayStation, Netflix, Amazon

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Teen hacker pleads guilty in cyberattack that targeted PlayStation, Netflix, Amazon


A teenager pleaded guilty in a New Hampshire court in a cyberattack that targeted PlayStation, Amazon, Netflix and several other companies, which resulted in a massive disruption to the internet in October 2016.The teen, who was not named because of their age, admitted conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse by operating a botnet and by intentionally damaging a computer. The teen will be sentenced on Jan. 7.According to federal investigators, from approximately 2015 until November of 2016, the teen worked with others to create and operate online botnets to launch cyberattacks, specifically targeting online gamers or gaming platforms to take those computers offline altogether or otherwise significantly impair their functionality. These attacks are often referred to as “Distributed Denial of Service” or “DDoS” attacks, investigators said.The teen and others created a botnet that targeted “Internet-of-Things” devices, such as internet-connected video cameras and recorders, and turned them into bots to be used to launch DDoS attacks, investigators said. According to court documents, on Oct. 21, 2016, the teen and others used the botnet to launch several DDoS attacks aimed to take the Sony PlayStation Network’s gaming platform offline for a sustained period. The DDoS attacks impacted a domain name resolver, New Hampshire-based Dyn, Inc., which caused websites, including those pertaining to Sony, Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, Tumblr, Netflix and Southern New Hampshire University, to become either completely inaccessible, or accessible only intermittently for several hours that day, investigators said. Sony said its losses from the attack resulted in $2.7 million in net revenue.

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A teenager pleaded guilty in a New Hampshire court in a cyberattack that targeted PlayStation, Amazon, Netflix and several other companies, which resulted in a massive disruption to the internet in October…

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It’s not just you: It was nearly impossible to buy the PlayStation 5 at launch thanks in part to resellers using the same type of bots that snatch up Yeezy drops

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  • The PlayStation 5 launched on Thursday, but it wasn’t sold in stores.
  • The only way to get a PlayStation 5 at launch was through a preorder, but some retailers sold PS5 consoles digitally on a first-come, first-served basis. Both Walmart and Target were walloped by customer demand.
  • The first drop of PlayStation 5 consoles on Walmart’s website came at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday, and it promptly took down the entire Walmart web store. Subsequent drops, three hours apart, presented a similarly difficult situation for many customers.
  • Resellers boasting dozens of PS5 consoles have popped up on eBay, StockX, and Instagram, and they appear to have used the same type of retail-busting software that sneaker resellers use to get the latest Yeezys.

After months of anticipation, Sony‘s PlayStation 5 finally launched on Thursday — but it seemed nearly impossible to buy the console through any online retailer.

Because of the pandemic, Sony decided not to go the traditional console-launch route and didn’t sell the new game console in retail stores at launch. Instead of massive launch lines and stories of excited fans camping out overnight in front of GameStop, the main way to get a PS5 on November 12 was to have preordered the console months ago through one of several retailers.

Beyond that, PlayStation 5 buyers had one recourse on launch day: the digital storefronts of major retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. And at 12 p.m. ET on November 12, people got a look at how well that system worked.
The flood of customers was so voluminous that it caused the entire Walmart web store to crash, and users were greeted with a message explaining that the store was overloaded by too many shoppers at one time.

“Last week, when we released the item for sale on Walmart.com, we did see massive traffic, which caused some customers to experience intermittent slowness for a few minutes,” a Walmart representative told Business Insider. “We quickly caught up with the volume and are currently restocking the item for additional release of inventory throughout the holidays.”

So how is it that one of America’s largest retailers was unable to handle a flood of digital customers?

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