Security focus has produced a great article on the Gaming consoles that are now offering ethernet ports on them so as to network them, put them online, etc.

Now, we all seem to know that the XBox has been cracked physically by an MIT student, but this may go further as more and more of these consoles are put online.

What seems to be an issue is that the developers of these systems aren't really taking any security factors into consideration though..

Read on:
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/490

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