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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 PlayStation 4 has recently been jailbroken once again, with firmware 9.00 falling to “pOOBs4”. What this means however, is that once again there is a path to playing the long lost P.T. (Playable ...

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 ...

PS4 consoles have finally been blown wide open courtesy of a new hack, according to Kotaku. BANGKOK, THAILAND - 2018/05/24: A Sony PlayStation 4 video game console with a red wireless controller next ...

December 13, 2021 may go down in history as the day the PlayStation 4 finally got blown wide open, as a trio of console hackers just released a new, ready-to-run kernel exploit for the PlayStation 4 ...

Hackers have released a new PS4 jailbreak for firmware version 9.00. Titled “pOOBs4”, the jailbreak takes advantage of a filesystem bug in the 9.00 firmware update. Notably, the kernel exploit used to ...

Last October, Eric David Scales was accused of selling jailbroken PS4 systems and pirated PS4 games on eBay. Sony then filed a suit against him, requesting $16,800 in damages, as well as $3,500 in ...

Sony has sued a man in California, claiming that he sold Jailbroken PlayStation 4 consoles. The lawsuit was first spotted by TorrentFreak and claims that the man was using the handle ‘BlackCoat13′. He ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment is requesting over $20,000 in damages and judicial costs from a California man that was accused of selling jailbroken PS4 consoles packed with pirated games back in ...

There hasn't been much piracy in the PS4's five-year history, but that's been changing ever since users started discovering jailbreaks that would allow running unofficial software -- and Sony is eager ...

A full working PS4 jailbreak would not necessarily be used only for piracy, as it could allow games purchased for older PlayStation consoles to be compatible with Sony’s newest console; it could also ...