Microsoft Wants Xbox One’s Security to be: “a Nightmare For Skilled Hackers

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While they had nothing to do with actual hacking, the DDOS attacks that put a dent in many gamers’ Holidays brought the problem of security back under the spotlight, and Microsoft seems to be taking it seriously, as revealed by a new career opportunity ad seeking a Software Engineer.

Are you passionate about consumer Devices and Security? Enjoy your Xbox for Entertainment and Gaming? Would you like to build a device so secure, that it is a nightmare for the most skilled hackers, yet a delight for all our customers? Have you ever found yourself thinking about how to protect a game or app running on the Xbox console or prevent anyone from cheating when playing online? If so, then we might have a very good opportunity for you!


Our team sits within the Core Operating Systems Group and we are looking for a talented, creative and driven Engineer help push the security bar to a new level on our Xbox One platform. Our mission is to realize the vision of making Xbox One the most secure and trustworthy consumer computing devices in the world. The team owns overall security implementation for Xbox platform including core hardware/firmware security and software. While delivering groundbreaking features central to Microsoft strategy, you will interface with a broad array of teams looking to leverage your work to enhance the Xbox experience.

We are looking for talented individuals that have a proven track record in software development, engineering and shipping robust and secure software.


If you love challenging technical problems and programming close to the metal, this is the job for you. The job requires close interaction with hardware design and carefully thought out operating system and driver modifications to achieve the security goals. This is a fast-paced group that rewards smart and motivated individuals and we take employee growth and work satisfaction very seriously.


Looks like improving the Xbox One’s security levels has become a focus priority at Microsoft, and they’re taking steps to prevent intrusions on both the hardware and software levels.
Protecting a gaming console is definitely a challenging task, and it’s good to see that Microsoft is taking the challenge seriously as it should. Gaming consoles are becoming more and more connected with the broader spectrum of our lives, so their security is strictly linked with ourown.

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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/01/02/microsoft-wants-to-improve-xbox-ones-security-a-nightmare-for-the-most-skilled-hackers/

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DPMPosted:

Hopefully Sony can do the same thing, PSN being down for 3 days was a nightmare.

DismissPosted:

Monster-Munch I hope they do make the security better like a better ddos security as that's the main problem they have all this money Microsoft have and they should improve it even if it costs millions of dollars as they would make it back as quick as they spend it.


Urg, people like you who don't have a clue about all that but keep commenting about how they should make it better. *FacePalm*

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Great news, it's nice to see that after recent events, they'll beef up security and keep the console 'safer' in a way. It would be nice to see CoD in the next year or 2 and see it kept clean of the 12 year olds glitching/modding the game.

Now Microsoft have announced this. Let's see what Sony does to their security/system.

TDKPosted:

Potion I hope they do make it extremely hard for people to hack and mod, the xbox 360 was ruined by people modding in games like call of duty.


I completely agree, modding should be left to PC users, glitches etc are things that get found exploited and finally repaired but modders are like cancer they ruin everything for a while then finally kill a game. I still think harsher punishments for example HUGE fines that have to be paid if caught modding in excess of $5000 . That would make the little creeps stop. I hope this happens soon because we all hate not getting to play online because some little moron got bored and decided to hack something.

The-ProfessorPosted:

This honestly some great news. It's nice that Microsoft is doing something about the hackers. Makes all the games bad.

AdamuPosted:

I hope they do make the security better like a better ddos security as that's the main problem they have all this money Microsoft have and they should improve it even if it costs millions of dollars as they would make it back as quick as they spend it.

HearthstonePosted:

I think what Microsoft is doing is a very good thing. They need to get some actual security that isn't able to be bypassed by any 12 year old that knows anything about Java.

MacMillerPosted:

Yeah Cornell's computer science department actually sent out an email talking about this. Weird that you posted this :)

I'll be looking into this over the next few weeks.

-GoldCoast-Posted:

good to see microsoft doing something about the hackers.

MoronicPosted:

At least Microsoft know and can admit that there security sucks.

NovhPosted:

Bloomy Thank god. Hopefully GTA V will hop along and fix their Xbox One servers. They are TERRIBLE.


It takes me forever to get a lobby on GTA


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