Hackers Stealing PlayStation 4 Security Information

The new era of gadgets and consoles started to bring in more and more advanced features with the latest programming techniques. But the darker side of programming world is the rapidly advancing pace of hacking these gadgets. Especially when the gadget giants like Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo releases new products; our hackers also immediately releases their own patch to introduce jailbreak in these devices. People always want things for free, but hacking also allows for extra features that can be customized by the user for a unique device.

Companies are always fighting back to close their security holes but even then hackers do their job to their best ability to give trouble to the big guns in the market. Hackers always get a huge welcome from the device users, as the hacking techniques saves lot of money by giving the premium content of each device at a free of cost, and that customization aspect.

During the emergence of PlayStation 3, there was been a huge impact to the PlayStation Network as the hackers disabled the PlayStation Network, which lasted for over a month! This has heavily impacted the sale of PlayStation 3, but Sony later worked around and resolved their security holes.

Now a recent report says Sony’s is being continuously hit by millions of intrusion connections which are completely blocked by Sony’s firewall. It’s mentioned in Sony’s official forum that many secret information of PlayStation 4 has been stolen by the famous Jail breaking group, but the Jail breaking group denied it by releasing a post in their website. Well, it’s doubtful that the  Jail breakers will let out any of their information until the product reaches the market.

An inside source also says Sony developers are fighting back with their security patches to re-model the architecture of PlayStation 4’s security features. Whether it is good or bad is subjective, but hackers are on their course of inventing new threats to PlayStation 4 and its new security features.

OS Support Feature Banned and the PS4

When Sony announced that they were going to ban the other OS compatibility of PlayStation 3 with a firmware upgrade in the first quarter of 2010, it started a huge mess among the PlayStation 3 owners. Sony forced those users to do a firmware upgrade by blocking few features. Many PlayStation 3 owners tried to sue Sony for banning this feature as it was one of the major features of PlayStation 3. The introduction of digital right management system had a massive impact on the PlayStation 3 owners. It’s believed that one of the major sales of PlayStation 3 was for using it as a super computer in labs. Even most of the US army devices were remodeled with the help of Sony’s PlayStation hardware chips.

As always, the rumors of the next generation PlayStation 4 device “Orbis” says that Sony is set to re-enable this other OS support feature with more security features to uphold the threat of being hacked. Many critics says Sony is playing a gamble by re-enabling this feature but not sure how this is going to work out as it has already faced a failure in this same feature. Insiders from Sony say they have introduced a customized kernel version rather than using the basic kernel to support this feature. This customized kernel may support specific versions of Linux only as a part of beta testing. Subsequently Sony will enable all version support after successful completion of beta testing.

But this time Sony is confident that they won’t block this feature, and that they have an alternative to block the security threats. An inside source also says Sony’s firmware upgrade during the release of PlayStation 4 will re-enable the other OS support in PlayStation 3 as well. So it’s good news for PlayStation 3 owners too after suffering for couple of years. Moreover it’s believed to be a gamble to boost PlayStation 4 sales.

PS4 Price Lower than Production Cost?

We remember how much it cost when the PS3 released several years ago; it was outrageous. Over the past year, Sony has dropped the price of the console to below the price of development, a huge gamble, but one that has paid off. It was to induce a competition in the market with its rivals Microsoft and Nintendo, whose prices were much lower. Microsoft and Nintendo’s console production cost is comparatively less than that of PlayStation because of the PS hardware and technology. PlayStation 4 is believed to be considered the only console which has the hardware with supercomputer specifications. Sony has a history of selling more consoles at a cheaper price but it gains more profit when you compare over all sale cost to the overall production cost. Who won’t prefer to buy a console which behaves similar a super computer when other consoles are just a game device? Yes, it’s easy to assume that every individual will jump over to get their own super computer rather than having a simple game device, but those with less cash flow will probably opt for the cheaper versions.

As PS4 is set to release for 2013 Christmas, more rumors circulate around the world about its extraordinary processor specifications, which means the production cost of the PS4 is probably huge. The graphic chip and processor used in the PS4 is believed to be the best available in the market, so the researchers and technicians around the world predicts that PS4 cost may be higher due to the very high configuration hardware components.

But Sony’s archived history pages say it is a part of Sony’s strategy. Sony always plays well with its hardware components and its sale price to attract more buyers rather than selling low quantity at a higher price. But it’s really great news for gaming console lovers around the world as they are going to have a super computer in the name of a gaming console at a price cheaper than actually building or buying a super-computer. Even researchers and scientists are looking around for this device as they can remodel the hardware for their researches at a cheaper cost rather than buying a high configured super computer at a very high price.

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