Comments on: Don’t Touch My Wii! http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/dont-touch-my-wii/ Cutting edge security research as it happens....... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:55:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Beware, you gamers! | Commtouch Café http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/dont-touch-my-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-243159 Beware, you gamers! | Commtouch Café Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:18:38 +0000 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=262#comment-243159 [...] In our era of gadgets and the Internet, online gaming is a popular feature of game systems like Sony PS2 and PS3, Microsoft Xbox, or Nintendo Wii. Apparently, along with the joy of online gaming come all the Internet risks too. According to this McAfee blog post by David Rayhawk, hackers have been working on exploiting the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo Wii uses Opera as its Internet browser. A few months ago, a vulnerability in the Opera browser was disclosed and promptly patched. However, it turned out that the original Wii version runs pre-patched version of the Opera browser and has this vulnerability. No need to panic, though. The problem does not pose any grave danger, and a patch is available. Still, it serves a reminder that no system is safe from the Internet dangers, so beware, you gamers! Tags: exploit, Internet risks, ISP, online gaming [...] [...] In our era of gadgets and the Internet, online gaming is a popular feature of game systems like Sony PS2 and PS3, Microsoft Xbox, or Nintendo Wii. Apparently, along with the joy of online gaming come all the Internet risks too. According to this McAfee blog post by David Rayhawk, hackers have been working on exploiting the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo Wii uses Opera as its Internet browser. A few months ago, a vulnerability in the Opera browser was disclosed and promptly patched. However, it turned out that the original Wii version runs pre-patched version of the Opera browser and has this vulnerability. No need to panic, though. The problem does not pose any grave danger, and a patch is available. Still, it serves a reminder that no system is safe from the Internet dangers, so beware, you gamers! Tags: exploit, Internet risks, ISP, online gaming [...]

]]> By: Wii Rally » Blog Archive » Wii Browser Warning http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/dont-touch-my-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-55103 Wii Rally » Blog Archive » Wii Browser Warning Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:44:24 +0000 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=262#comment-55103 [...] I was reading the Tanooki today and was pointed to a post from the McAfee Avert Labs Blog where the writer David Rayhawk warns that those using the 1st or “trial version” of the Wii Opera browser may have a system venerability. Don’t worry too much though there isn’t much that can be done to your Wii from an outside source. I’m guessing that “worst case scenario” here would be a wiped hard drive and missing game saves. I think a couple of reports may have surfaced about manipulated images but that has not been confirmed. [...] [...] I was reading the Tanooki today and was pointed to a post from the McAfee Avert Labs Blog where the writer David Rayhawk warns that those using the 1st or “trial version” of the Wii Opera browser may have a system venerability. Don’t worry too much though there isn’t much that can be done to your Wii from an outside source. I’m guessing that “worst case scenario” here would be a wiped hard drive and missing game saves. I think a couple of reports may have surfaced about manipulated images but that has not been confirmed. [...]

]]> By: Team QJ http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/dont-touch-my-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-54383 Team QJ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:32:02 +0000 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=262#comment-54383 Thanks for the information. We spread the word on the exploit. Hopefully many will pick up the news and update soon enough. It's interesting how the kinks in the Opera code are inherited for every platform. Oh, and Wii is a very good tool for...err...research. Thanks for the information. We spread the word on the exploit. Hopefully many will pick up the news and update soon enough. It’s interesting how the kinks in the Opera code are inherited for every platform. Oh, and Wii is a very good tool for…err…research.

]]> By: Daniel Wolff http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/dont-touch-my-wii/comment-page-1/#comment-53129 Daniel Wolff Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:00:48 +0000 http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=262#comment-53129 Personally I think that a Wii for each lab (rather than just the US!) - and indeed a PS3 as well! should be considered essential equipment! (although you may need a product to sell for the Wii too rather than just identifying malware on servers hosting it!) Dan Wolff Personally I think that a Wii for each lab (rather than just the US!) – and indeed a PS3 as well! should be considered essential equipment! (although you may need a product to sell for the Wii too rather than just identifying malware on servers hosting it!)

Dan Wolff

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