#FailOverflow

[arielmcorg]

Los piratas informáticos logran avances significativos para descifrar la PS5 de Sony

Los piratas informáticos logran avances significativos para descifrar la PS5 de Sony

Existe la posibilidad de que la PlayStation 5 de Sony se pueda romper en algún momento en el futuro. Durante el fin de semana, el conocido grupo de piratería FailOverflow tuiteó que pudo tener en sus manos la clave raíz de la PS5, que luego permitió descifrar el firmware de la consola. FailOverFlow fue el primer grupo en superar las funciones de seguridad de la PS3 en 2010. The Verge también…

[kindlecomparedinfo]

Unstoppable exploit in Nintendo Switch opens door to homebrew and piracy

The Nintendo Switch may soon be a haven for hackers, but not the kind that want your data — the kind that want to run SNES emulators and Linux on their handheld gaming consoles. A flaw in an Nvidia chip used by the Switch, detailed today, lets power users inject code into the system and modify it however they choose.

The exploit, known as Fusée Gelée, was first hinted at by developer Kate Temkin a few months ago. She and others at ReSwitched worked to prove and document the exploit, sending it to Nvidia and Nintendo, among others.

Although responsible disclosure is to be applauded, it won’t make much difference here: this flaw isn’t the kind that can be fixed with a patch. Millions of Switches are vulnerable, permanently, to what amounts to a total jailbreak; only new ones with code tweaked at the factory will be immune.

That’s because the flaw is baked into the read-only memory of the Nvidia Tegra X1 used in the Switch and a few other devices. It’s in the “Boot and Power Management Processor” to be specific, where a misformed packet sent during a routine USB device status check allows the connected device to send up to 64 kibibytes (65,535 bytes) of extra data that will be executed without question. You need to get into recovery mode first, but that’s easy.

As you can imagine, getting arbitrary code to run on a device that deep in its processes is a huge, huge vulnerability. Fortunately it’s only available to someone with direct, physical access to the Switch. But that in itself makes it an extremely powerful tool for anyone who wants to modify their own console.

Modding consoles is done for many reasons, and indeed piracy is among them. But people also want to do things Nintendo won’t let them, like back up their saved games, run custom software like emulators or extend the capabilities of the OS beyond the meager features the company has provided.

Temkin and her colleagues had planned to release the vulnerability publicly on June 15 or when someone releases the vulnerability independent of them — whichever came first. It turned out to be the latter, which apparently came as a surprise to no one in the community. The X1 exploit seems to have been something of an open secret.

The exploit was released anonymously by some hacker and Temkin accordingly published the team’s documentation of it on GitHub. If that’s too technical, there’s also some more plain-language chatter about the flaw in a FAQ posted earlier this month. I’ve asked Temkin for a few more details.

In addition to Temkin, failOverflow announced a small device that will short a pin in the USB connector and put the device into recovery mode, prepping it for exploitation. And Team-Xecuter was advertising a similar hardware attack months ago.

The answer to the most obvious question is no, you can’t just fire this up and start playing Wave Race 64 (or a pirated Zelda) on your Switch 15 minutes from now. The exploit still requires technical ability to implement, though as with many other hacks of this type, someone will likely graft it to a nice GUI that guides ordinary users through the process. (It certainly happened with the NES and SNES Classic Editions.)

Although the exploit can’t be patched away with a software update, Nintendo isn’t powerless. It’s likely that a modified Switch would be barred from the company’s online services (such as they are) and possibly the user’s account, as well. So although the hacking process is, compared with the soldering required for modchips of decades past, low on risk, it isn’t a golden ticket.

That said, Fusée Gelée will almost certainly open the floodgates for developers and hackers who care little for Nintendo’s official ecosystem and would rather see what they can get this great piece of hardware to do on their own.

I’ve asked Nintendo and Nvidia for comment and will update when I hear back.

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[uros]

Están transformando el Nintendo Switch en una tableta de Linux.

El equipo de FailOverFlow es un equipo especializado en piratería. Están encantados de presentarles su nuevo “Hack”. Al explotar una falla en el Nintendo Switch lograron transformarlo en una tableta táctil en Linux.

  Un conmutador de Nintendo transformado en una tableta de Linux

Si entiendes inglés, aquí tienes un video que explica la hazaña con un poco más de detalle.

¡Esta no es la primera vez!

La falla proviene del procesador gráfico Nvidia, que ya fue explotado a principios de año. Una puerta abierta que permite la instalación de otros juegos y aplicaciones…

Este hack ha estado disponible desde principios de 2018, si decides hackear tu Nintendo Switch, debes tener en cuenta que esto pone fin a la garantía de tu Switch.

La entrada Están transformando el Nintendo Switch en una tableta de Linux. se publicó primero en El rincon de diego.

Por El rincon de diego

[galigio]

Game Modder Mizumi Hacks Nintendo Switch To Run Gloriously Retro N64 And GameCube Games - Hot Hardware Hot Hardware Game Modder Mizumi Hacks Nintendo Switch To Run Gloriously Retro N64 And GameCube Games Hot Hardware The gang from Failoverflow guaranteed that the Nintendo Switch would be hacked to run all sorts of content not originally targeted for Nintendo's latest console, once the elite hacker group figured out how to get Linux to run on the device. That hack ... Billy CTcon on Twitter: "Pokémon Snap works well.… "

July 14, 2018 at 06:37AM & selected by Galigio

[daefixockd-blog]

Primera prueba de un emulador de Gamecube en Nintendo Switch

Primera prueba de un emulador de Gamecube en Nintendo Switch

  El reciente hackeo de Nintendo Switch ha abierto la puerta a todo tipo de utilidades que ahora pueden darse a la consola híbrida de Nintendo, entre ellas hoy destaca este emulador dolphin de Gamecube, que podemos ver funcionando en este interesante vídeo con The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

El emulador dolphin se ejecuta gracias a que el equipo de failOverflow lanzo la posibilidad de ejecutar…

[abckidstvyara]

Unstoppable exploit in Nintendo Switch opens door to homebrew and piracy

Unstoppable exploit in Nintendo Switch opens door to homebrew and piracy

The Nintendo Switch may soon be a haven for hackers, but not the kind that want your data — the kind that want to run SNES emulators and Linux on their handheld gaming consoles. A flaw in an Nvidia chip used by the Switch, detailed today, lets power users inject code into the system and modify it however they choose.

The exploit, known as Fusée Gelée, was first hinted at by developer Kate Temkin a few months ago. She and others at ReSwitched worked to prove and document the exploit, sending it to Nvidia and Nintendo, among others.

Although responsible disclosure is to be applauded, it won’t make much difference here: this flaw isn’t the kind that can be fixed with a patch. Millions of Switches are vulnerable, permanently, to what amounts to a total jailbreak; only new ones with code tweaked at the factory will be immune.

That’s because the flaw is baked into the read-only memory of the Nvidia Tegra X1 used in the Switch and a few other devices. It’s in the “Boot and Power Management Processor” to be specific, where a misformed packet sent during a routine USB device status check allows the connected device to send up to 64 kibibytes (65,535 bytes) of extra data that will be executed without question. You need to get into recovery mode first, but that’s easy.

As you can imagine, getting arbitrary code to run on a device that deep in its processes is a huge, huge vulnerability. Fortunately it’s only available to someone with direct, physical access to the Switch. But that in itself makes it an extremely powerful tool for anyone who wants to modify their own console.

Modding consoles is done for many reasons, and indeed piracy is among them. But people also want to do things Nintendo won’t let them, like back up their saved games, run custom software like emulators, or extend the capabilities of the OS beyond the meager features the company has provided.

Temkin and her colleagues had planned to release the vulnerability publicly on June 15 or when someone releases the vulnerability independent of them — whichever came first. It turned out to be the latter, which apparently came as a surprise to no one in the community. The X1 exploit seems to have been something of an open secret.

The exploit was released anonymously by some hacker and Temkin accordingly published the team’s documentation of it on GitHub. If that’s too technical, there’s also some more plain-language chatter about the flaw in a FAQ posted earlier this month. I’ve asked Temkin for a few more details.

In addition to Temkin, failOverflow announced a small device that will short a pin in the USB connector and put the device into recovery mode, prepping it for exploitation. And Team-Xecuter was advertising a similar hardware attack months ago.

The answer to the most obvious question is no, you can’t just fire this up and start playing Wave Race 64 (or a pirated Zelda) on your Switch 15 minutes from now. The exploit still requires technical ability to implement, though as with many other hacks of this type, someone will likely graft it to a nice GUI that guides ordinary users through the process. (It certainly happened with the NES and SNES Classic Editions.)

Although the exploit can’t be patched away with a software update, Nintendo isn’t powerless. It’s likely that a modified Switch would be barred from the company’s online services (such as they are) and possibly the user’s account as well. So although the hacking process is, compared with the soldering required for modchips of decades past, low on risk, it isn’t a golden ticket.

That said, Fusée Gelée will almost certainly open the floodgates for developers and hackers who care little for Nintendo’s official ecosystem and would rather see what they can get this great piece of hardware to do on their own.

I’ve asked Nintendo and Nvidia for comment and will update when I hear back.

[christec]

Des hackers transforment la Nintendo Switch en une véritable tablette Linux tactile grâce à une faille matérielle présente dans la puce Nvidia #ChrisTec Des hackers transforment la Nintendo Switch en une véritable tablette Linux tactileGrâce à une faille matérielle présente dans la puce NvidiaLe groupe de hackers failoverflow a réussi l'exploit d'installer Linux sur la Nintendo Switch, la dernière console en date produite par le japonais et qui peut faire office de console de salon ou de console portable. En exploitant une faille majeure dans la Switch, le collectif a réussi à transformer la console en une véritable tablette Linux tactile. Preuve...

[cetjunior]

Nintendo Switch foi oficialmente desbloqueado por hackers Depois de tanto afirmar que estava perto de desbloquear o Nintendo Switch, o grupo hacker FailOverflow parece ter finalmente conseguido alcançar essa façanha.

[techmanianl]

Hackers draaien PC-games op PS4

Hackers draaien PC-games op PS4

Begin januari tijdens de 32ste Chaos Computer Conference in Duitsland presenteerde hackersgroep fail0verflow een PlayStation 4 hack. Met de ontwikkelde jailbreak van de hackers is het mogelijk om Linux te draaien op een PS4. Je game console wordt dankzij de jailbreak een volledige PC, waarop je eigen software kunt installeren en draaien.

Het is fail0verflow nu ook gelukt om PC-games te draaien…

[geekoutpost]

You Can Play Pokemon On PS4 By Hacking The System

You Can Play Pokemon On PS4 By Hacking The System

This handheld classic just got an upgrade to a bigger system and TV screen!  (more…)

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Article by Tech n Gadgets at 2011-01-06 19:47:50 Categorized in Technology,

[galigio]

Game Modder Mizumi Hacks Nintendo Switch To Run Gloriously Retro N64 And GameCube Games - Hot Hardware Hot Hardware Game Modder Mizumi Hacks Nintendo Switch To Run Gloriously Retro N64 And GameCube Games Hot Hardware The gang from Failoverflow guaranteed that the Nintendo Switch would be hacked to run all sorts of content not originally targeted for Nintendo's latest console, once the elite hacker group figured out how to get Linux to run on the device. That hack ...

July 13, 2018 at 07:57PM & selected by Galigio

[iphonemanianl]

Fail0verflow zet Linux-kernel voor PS4 online

Fail0verflow zet Linux-kernel voor PS4 online

Tijdens de 32ste Chaos Computer Conference in Duitsland presenteerde hackersgroep fail0verflow hun PS4 hack. Met de hack is het mogelijk om Linux te draaien op de PS4. Voor het draaien van homebrew software op de PS4 is dit een grote stap. Je PS4 wordt een volledige PC, waarop je eigen software kunt installeren en draaien. Fail0verflow heeft inmiddels de bestanden online geplaatst voor het…

[abckidstvyara]

The Nintendo Switch may soon be a haven for hackers, but not the kind that want your data — the kind that want to run SNES emulators and Linux on their handheld gaming consoles. A flaw in an Nvidia chip used by the Switch, detailed today, lets power users inject code into the system and modify it however they choose.

The exploit, known as Fusée Gelée, was first hinted at by developer Kate Temkin a few months ago. She and others at ReSwitched worked to prove and document the exploit, sending it to Nvidia and Nintendo, among others.

Although responsible disclosure is to be applauded, it won’t make much difference here: this flaw isn’t the kind that can be fixed with a patch. Millions of Switches are vulnerable, permanently, to what amounts to a total jailbreak; only new ones with code tweaked at the factory will be immune.

That’s because the flaw is baked into the read-only memory of the Nvidia Tegra X1 used in the Switch and a few other devices. It’s in the “Boot and Power Management Processor” to be specific, where a misformed packet sent during a routine USB device status check allows the connected device to send up to 64 kibibytes (65,535 bytes) of extra data that will be executed without question. You need to get into recovery mode first, but that’s easy.

As you can imagine, getting arbitrary code to run on a device that deep in its processes is a huge, huge vulnerability. Fortunately it’s only available to someone with direct, physical access to the Switch. But that in itself makes it an extremely powerful tool for anyone who wants to modify their own console.

Modding consoles is done for many reasons, and indeed piracy is among them. But people also want to do things Nintendo won’t let them, like back up their saved games, run custom software like emulators, or extend the capabilities of the OS beyond the meager features the company has provided.

Temkin and her colleagues had planned to release the vulnerability publicly on June 15 or when someone releases the vulnerability independent of them — whichever came first. It turned out to be the latter, which apparently came as a surprise to no one in the community. The X1 exploit seems to have been something of an open secret.

The exploit was released anonymously by some hacker and Temkin accordingly published the team’s documentation of it on GitHub. If that’s too technical, there’s also some more plain-language chatter about the flaw in a FAQ posted earlier this month. I’ve asked Temkin for a few more details.

In addition to Temkin, failOverflow announced a small device that will short a pin in the USB connector and put the device into recovery mode, prepping it for exploitation. And Team-Xecuter was advertising a similar hardware attack months ago.

The answer to the most obvious question is no, you can’t just fire this up and start playing Wave Race 64 (or a pirated Zelda) on your Switch 15 minutes from now. The exploit still requires technical ability to implement, though as with many other hacks of this type, someone will likely graft it to a nice GUI that guides ordinary users through the process. (It certainly happened with the NES and SNES Classic Editions.)

Although the exploit can’t be patched away with a software update, Nintendo isn’t powerless. It’s likely that a modified Switch would be barred from the company’s online services (such as they are) and possibly the user’s account as well. So although the hacking process is, compared with the soldering required for modchips of decades past, low on risk, it isn’t a golden ticket.

That said, Fusée Gelée will almost certainly open the floodgates for developers and hackers who care little for Nintendo’s official ecosystem and would rather see what they can get this great piece of hardware to do on their own.

I’ve asked Nintendo and Nvidia for comment and will update when I hear back.

[techgeekforever]

Ingenious hobbyists mod the PS4 so that it can run Linux

Ingenious hobbyists mod the PS4 so that it can run Linux #tech

Just about every gaming console has two types of community around it: One is the gaming community, which plays games, and the other, is the hobbyist community, which runs software on these consoles that they were not designed for. (more…)