Originally posted by another user
As Sony finally begins to use their ban hammers against those who have jailbroke their consoles’, hackers have now found a way to Unban their PS3 console’s and ban legitimate users. Yes, you read that correctly. Hackers can now ban you in the process for doing absolutely nothing .
Website, PSX Scene is the first to report on user’s actually being able to do this.
Originally posted by another user
Hot off the press, and on the heels of Sony trying to find all the modded PS3 consoles, comes a funny story from SKFU’s Blog (an PS3 researcher/developer), along with a real way to UNBAN yourself, but watch out LEGIT PS3 owners, you could end up being banned by another user!
1) The bans are based on the users’ account and console ID’s.
2) We can modify all traffic sent and received by the PlayStation3
What if some skiddies start to modify their sent traffic to appear as another user and use backups?
The PSN servers would recognize the TOS violation and check the online user database for known connections based on the ID’s. The user and his consoles who really owns the ID’s would be banned.
Even a simple Windows application which goes through ALL ID’s may be possible. 24 hours and any console worldwide would be banned.
This should definitely be double-checked by SONY.
Now with these tool’s out, legit PSN users can be banned by the simple use of a program. We will not post the link to the forum post since we do not condone any use of these hacking tools at all on our site. But with the ablilty for hackers to ban and unban PS3 Consoles, what more can PSN user’s endure and what can Sony do about this now?
Picture Proof
We have been getting reports from multiple people that this is legitimate.
[UPDATE]
The Forum post on PSX Scene has been removed however this was NOT our original source. We’ll keep you up to date on the findings on this latest hack and update later to confirm if this is real or not.
Obviously no download links can be found as yet but you'll be sure to see it here, or EVERY other PS3 site in the very near future!!
Originally posted by another user
I analysed, with my PC in bridge, which kind of traffic a PS3 will generate on startup without trying to access PSN, and the results are quite worrying.
PS3 sends the following lines to auth.np.ac.playstation.net:
X-Platform-Version: PS3 03.55
type=0&serviceid=SCEI-0&loginid=VrEa2uUV3s2hTgLj&password
loginid and password are in base64 and they the same for all the PS3s. consoleid instead changes on every console.
PS3 also send some DNS request to resolve some playstation.net subdomains:
Originally posted by another user
auth.np.ac.playstation.net
ena.net.playstation.net
mercury.dl.playstation.net
nsx.np.dl.playstation.net
tmdb.np.dl.playstation.net
us.np.stun.playstation.net xmb.dl.playstation.net
PS3 also does some HTTP requests with PS3Application libhttp/3.5.5-000 (CellOS) as User-Agent.
I suggest to BLOCK *.playstation.net in router firewall or in dns to avoid information spoofing and banning