Given Nintendo's recent crackdown on emulation, piracy and hacking, it comes as no surprise the company is now seeking an individual who specialises in tightening up security and identifying any vulnerabilities. Nintendo Technology Development - a known hardware division of the company - has posted a new job listing for a senior security software engineer.
The person will need to be skilled in hacking, reverse engineering and also conducting security reviews of existing software components and subsystems. Below is a full list of responsibilities:
- Conducting security reviews of existing software components and subsystems
- Analyzing past security breaches to understand vulnerabilities
- Using tools such as IDA Pro or a disassembler to reverse engineer malicious binary images
- Hacking and also implementing formal penetration tests
- Research, design and development of security technologies such as secure boot, type-1 hypervisors
Nintendo also reportedly intends to expand this division, with more low tier positions said to be opening in the near future. If you think you've got what it takes, you can apply here. The position is located at Nintendo's American headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
[source twitter.com]
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Nintendo Hacking Defense Team (NHDT).
Nintendo going full ops on Hacking
If Nintendo supports that new team as it supports its team of lawyers, I do not want to imagine the defense capacity for its systems as "attacking" its "problems in general"
Good first step.
Now if they can introduce a "permanent ban" implementation for their servers that permanently bans tryhard autoaimbots, hackers, and cheaters, THEN they'll have done great!
After hiring someone they now have to deal with that person leaking stuff. It's possible y'know. Everybody has a few hidden agendas. XD
I love that pic for the article.
Glad to see this is happening. No more adult themed imagery on avatars soon hopefully.
Lol. Guys its called cracking. Hackers build code. Crackers break into things.
This news is one week old... NL can never keep up.
Most governments do the same thing. The best anti-hackers are ex-hackers.
They've got so many white hats on their program now, it's gonna be a tough crowd.
@Trajan Hacking means either building code or gaining illegal access. Both are common uses.
Old, old old.
The job posting date was May 2018. Twitter dude discovered it last week. Nintendo Life reporting today.
I once played a game called hacker back in the 1980s does that count lol.
@Trajan The definition of hacker includes the definition of a 'cracker' and is standard industry lexicon. Basically cracking software is part of what a hacker may do.
The accompanying screen cap for this story will never not make me smile.
@itsthomasagain It isn't happening nearly FAST enough.
THAT'S the BIG issue here.
@ReaderRagfish: He'll get rid of the ghosts in the machines, specifically Nintendo's current, and future hardware. Or, he'll get Luigi to do it.
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