Archive for February, 2007

Xbox 360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Hawt… With the last major update of the X360 kernel (4532 – released 31 Oct 2006), there came with is a small security flaw that allows unsigned code to run. Schweet. Well, not really… Outside of the unsigned code issue, it also gives an intruder possible remote access to [...]

Wii + Nerf = WTF?!

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Yep. Nerf has decided to do a little cashing in on the unique aspects of the Wiimote. Check out the link HERE and HERE to see the add ons you can buy to enjoy a more “realistic” game of WiiSports – and help minimize all of that wholesale damage brought on [...]

Squidly1’s XBMC distro

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

I got tired of seeing post-2.0 distros of XBMC (Xbox Media Center) floating around that have one thing or another broken on them. So I grabbed one of the better ones, put out by T3CH, and fixed it for my system. My last stable install has been merged with their last [...]

My Softmodder’s Guide

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

In the last couple of months I have been asked dozens of times how to hack an Xbox. Well, I’ll tell you – in the softmodder’s guide I am working on. Note: I do NOT plan on covering Linux installs (there are greak wikis already out there with the details) or hardware modifications… [...]