The public Beta for Home has been around now for about 6 days and already people have found a few security holes in it.
Most of them are minor and are more a commercial threat to Sony than anything to serious. You see Sony are planning on making some cash by selling things to decorate your space in Home and letting you watch movies in Home. However a new hack has been released where you can literally plug into the downstream and put whatever you want into your space for free.
The more worrying one though is that someone has found a way to upload any file they like to the Home servers which means that they could theoretically upload a virus into the Home world which would then be downloaded onto your PS3.
Or they could just kill Home.
Sony are going to have to patch this quickly before the mass market headlines all read “PlayStation 3 attacked by rogue computer virusâ€
Source: Daily Telegraph
Last Updated: December 18, 2008
baba
December 18, 2008 at 11:20
Theoretically you’ve watched to many movies!!!
Even if they can upload a file to the Home servers, it has to be executed. A virus can’t just spread by itself without having been executed by the OS.
Still, anything is possible…
LazySAGamer
December 18, 2008 at 11:46
You missed the part about deleting… since a user can delete a file they can theoretically delete a core file and replace it with their file. Which means it will be executed.
Or they can upload a file and then execute it themselves, there is no reason it has to be executed by the OS.
or they can continue to upload files until the server crashes under the load
or or or… We will never really know but at the moment Sony are vulnerable.
Lupus
December 18, 2008 at 12:57
And killing Home would be a bad thing why? 🙄