**UPDATE** PSP firmware 3.51 comes to UK; U.S. hold tight, you’re certainly next
It was just a couple of hours ago when we learned that Sony has unleashed a new official PlayStation Portable firmware over at its PlayStation site for Japan. Dubbed as firmware 3.51, this development is still somewhat shrouded in mystery as the only known change implemented to it is the fix for a certain security vulnerability.
This time, the very same firmware appeared on PlayStation UK and Sony is still keeping mum if there are other changes made to it. The very short changelog reads,
- Security:
- A patch has been added to address security vulnerability in the system software.
While it’s not being addressed out loud, the homebrew community has a good reason to believe that the security vulnerability being referred to by Sony concerns the Illuminati exploit that lets users downgrade firmware 3.50 with the help of innocent-looking Lumines UMD.
We check the official PlayStation for North America and the said update is still nowhere to be found. Despite that, however, we believe that it’s just a matter of hours or even 0moments before Sony brings it to the said market.
Updates as we get them.
UPDATE: As we said earlier, hold tight U.S. because you are certainly next. True enough, official PSP firmware 3.51 just appeared on the PlayStation site for North America. It seems that the new firmware is indeed all about the security patch as reflected by its changelog:
The PSP system software version 3.51 update (with v 3.50) includes the following:
- Network
- You can now connect a PSP system to a PS3 system via the Internet using [Remote Play].
- [Communication Settings] has been added as an option to the [Remote Play] menu.
- [RSS Channel Guide] has been added as a feature under [RSS Channel].
- Other
- New for 3.51: A security patch was added to address security vulnerabilities in the system software.
Download: Official PSP FW 3.51 (North America)
It was just a couple of hours ago when we learned that Sony has unleashed a new official PlayStation Portable firmware over at its PlayStation site for Japan. Dubbed as firmware 3.51, this development is still somewhat shrouded in mystery as the only known change implemented to it is the fix for a certain security vulnerability.
This time, the very same firmware appeared on PlayStation UK and Sony is still keeping mum if there are other changes made to it. The very short changelog reads,
- Security:
- A patch has been added to address security vulnerability in the system software.
While it’s not being addressed out loud, the homebrew community has a good reason to believe that the security vulnerability being referred to by Sony concerns the Illuminati exploit that lets users downgrade firmware 3.50 with the help of innocent-looking Lumines UMD.
We check the official PlayStation for North America and the said update is still nowhere to be found. Despite that, however, we believe that it’s just a matter of hours or even 0moments before Sony brings it to the said market.
Updates as we get them.
UPDATE: As we said earlier, hold tight U.S. because you are certainly next. True enough, official PSP firmware 3.51 just appeared on the PlayStation site for North America. It seems that the new firmware is indeed all about the security patch as reflected by its changelog:
The PSP system software version 3.51 update (with v 3.50) includes the following:
- Network
- You can now connect a PSP system to a PS3 system via the Internet using [Remote Play].
- [Communication Settings] has been added as an option to the [Remote Play] menu.
- [RSS Channel Guide] has been added as a feature under [RSS Channel].
- Other
- New for 3.51: A security patch was added to address security vulnerabilities in the system software.
Download: Official PSP FW 3.51 (North America)