PS4 and PS4 Pro owners now have a way to jailbreak their consoles, thanks to a small team of hackers who released a kernel exploit earlier this week. The jailbreak, maturely named “pOOBs4,” allows ...

Hackers have released details of a new exploit that allows homebrew and custom firmware to be installed on PS4 consoles running relatively recent firmware. What’s more, the specifics of the exploit ...

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Gaming consoles are powerful machines that — in recent generations — have become similar to desktop computers in terms of hardware and capabilities. Despite all of that power, however, these gaming ...

Sony has stealthily removed the jailbreak exploit for its flagship home console via the recently launched PS4 update 4.73. That’s at least according to new reports filtering onto the web today, which ...

Writer with a particular interest in the obscure. The exploit quickly caught the attention of prominent figures in the modding community, with some comparing it to the FreeDVDBoot hack for PlayStation ...

Hackers have been circling the PS5 for almost a year now, and it appears they may have finally managed to jailbreak the 2020 hardware with a new kernel-level exploit first discovered on the PS4. While ...

The other day we reported on a viral message exploit that appeared to be bricking gamers' PS4 consoles (as users in the comments section pointed out, it was in fact sending them into a crash loop and ...

Update 2: Sony now says it has fixed the viral messaging exploit that was sending PS4 consoles into a never-ending crash loop. Yesterday Sony told VG247 that a fix was coming in a system software ...

Update 10/16/18: Sony says that it's now rolled out a fix for the malicious message exploit. Over the weekend, PlayStation 4 users began reporting their consoles were being rendered inoperable upon ...