PlayStation Portal or PS Portal is the newest PS5 device, and since it came out some have looked for new uses for it. One of them was a Google engineer who helped hack it to run PSP games, and now he's supporting Sony to fix it.
As you can read, the person who discovered this vulnerability to play titles on this old portable offline is now helping this console manufacturer to correct it.
Originally, PS Portal only allows you to stream games from the PlayStation 5 and cannot store them itself.
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However, last February researcher Andy Nguyen from Google's cloud service revealed that he, along with a small team of other engineers from this company, had hacked this peripheral.
In this way it allowed you to play video games locally through a PlayStation Portable emulator natively.
On April 1, PS Portal received a new firmware update, which is now version 2.06. Nguyen later confirmed via his Twitter account that this patch contained a fix to fix the vulnerability he and his team found.
They helped Sony identify it and find a solution. In her own words she said 'we responsibly report problems to PlayStation' and so the correction happened.
This is not the first time Andy Nguyen has hacked a Sony device. Before joining Google he published PS Vita jailbreaks and revealed PS4 vulnerabilities.
However, when he found the PS Portal problem he decided not to make it public.
Instead he preferred to help Sony, an extra task separate from his work with Google's cloud service. It is possible that if you find another vulnerability you will share it with this company.
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