{"id":10509,"date":"2011-03-07T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"modern-warfare-2-counter-hacking-patch-inbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10509-modern-warfare-2-counter-hacking-patch-inbound","title":{"rendered":"Modern Warfare 2 counter-hacking patch inbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Modern Warfare 2 players will tell you about the hacking problems making Modern Warfare 2 an unpleasant experience. The PS3 version in particular has been subjected to a renewed hacker offensive thanks to the security key leaks that blew the console open at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>While Sony busily started suing anyone who&rsquo;s looked at a PS3 funny and worked on security fixes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/9443-Hackers-ruining-Modern-Warfare-PS3.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Modern Warfare 2 PS3 community worked itself into a fit\">Modern Warfare 2 PS3 community worked itself into a fit<\/a> about the escalating hacking problem.<\/p>\n<p>Infinity Ward now seems ready to launch a patch that will address the hacking problem on the PS3, the news coming via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityward.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=32&amp;t=373630\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Infinity Ward forum\">Infinity Ward forum<\/a>. &ldquo;The latest patch for Modern Warfare 2 has finished. This new title update will address security issues that have affected online play,&rdquo; said Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling. &ldquo;In addition to the security updates, this patch will also address a small geo exploit on the map Fuel, which players exploited in order to get inside a rock on the outskirts of the map,&rdquo; adds Bowling<\/p>\n<p>The patch will be available tomorrow (8 March 2011) for PS3 gamers. Xbox 360 and PC gamers will be receiving the patch at a date yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patch to address hacking problems is on its way for Modern Warfare 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}