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PSN, Battlenet, Riot, and others DDOSed; PSN returning lightly toasted with butter
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Lmao
Prototype Viktor
Member
That and MS has years of Chinese ip based attacks against their servers/software to help them combat things
toadsworth
Banned
This is so dumb. What a ridiculous waste of everyone's time. These kids have far too much time on their hands.
I wonder if they are actually associated with ISIS? This would be the first 'cyber jihad' I've heard of, scary stuff.
I wonder if they are actually associated with ISIS? This would be the first 'cyber jihad' I've heard of, scary stuff.
serversurfer
Member
I suspect groups like ISIS are more focused on actual attacks.
A DDoS is little more than cyber-vandalism, really.
Handy Fake
Member
It's all fun and games until you're being railroaded in the prison showers.
I wish the cops / feds could have news cameras with them when they go to bust these douche bags. I bet a good amount of them would cry like little bitches.
I just don't understand the thought process these kids must've gone through. Taking down services with DDoS attacks in the Name of "consumer rights Whatever blabla" nonsense is one thing, but an actual bomb thread on a domestic flight and letting yourself Seem affiliated with IS??
That's just crazy.
Guess american agencies are (rightfully) all over them right now.
Really wondering what kind of people are behind that group.
I guess we'll know soon enough...
That's just crazy.
Guess american agencies are (rightfully) all over them right now.
Really wondering what kind of people are behind that group.
I guess we'll know soon enough...
drotahorror
Member
Is anyone else getting spammed messages on PSN? I'm getting non stop messages but when I go to check them there's none there. I've never even heard of these people.
PS4, PS3, or Vita?
drotahorror
Member
Alright it's somethin called GAF Nation on PSN. I didn't even know something like this existed. How do I leave it? It's kind of annoying.
drotahorror
Member
Nvm, think I figured it out. Back to Diablo!
Cornbread78
Member
"Forward this message to 50 of your closest PSN friends and a GAF Gold membership will be yours!"
B_Spooky13
Member
They have been pretty quiet on their twitter.. caught maybe?
dude, wait... what !?
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Cyber jihad sounds ironic
They mention that Sony got "hacked" but conveniently fail to mention that other networks got hit too.
Miles Quaritch
Member
I know you're banned and so can't respond, but you really could not have been serious with this post.
You expect journalists to do their jobs and research? Too much effort.
I know Sony is primarily a hardware company, but this should definitely be another wake up call that some things needs to be strengthened in their system.
Like what? Anti-DDOS appliances?
no... most sites also mention attacks on battle.net and xbox live. Why would you even jump to the assumption there is a secret agenda to destroy sony 0.o its just ¯\_(ツ
_/¯Nathan_Drake
Member
All good in SC. playing D3 on PS4
BouncyFrag
Member
I live in Dallas and there was a blurb in the news about in the redirected flight but it didn't have any details. I explained to my dad what had happened (thank you GAF!), but as he is technologically challenged he had no idea what I was talking about.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
They know what PSN is. They're tech and social media savvy.
Well, at least if they switched to an entirely virtual system of Jihad their would be less deaths.
no... most sites also mention attacks on battle.net and xbox live. Why would you even jump to the assumption there is a secret agenda to destroy sony 0.o its just ¯\_(ツ
I'm just talking about sites that only mention the Playstation network like the Verge and Screwattack.
tfur
Member
I think they probably did exactly as they were instructed.
Threat came in
Turned down some backend services
Gathered and continue gathering network dumps
Alerted federal authorities.
Alerted security and mitigation services
Alerted upstream backbone providers
Determined threat was only traffic based
Turned services back up
After the incident just a few years ago, I would imagine they have a fairly updated and planned strategy for these things. Some combo/order of these things are planned for most companies.
I guess we will see how things play out over time.
The Stig
Member
well maybe. but realistically i doubt they're too bothered about it.
For those that are still calling this a Hack, I hope you understand that in this instance, it does not fit the definition.
The reason a vocal few are speaking out about the use of a silly word, is because in this instance, it would automatically be taken as security breach, harm, loss.
In this article from Mashable:
The reason a vocal few are speaking out about the use of a silly word, is because in this instance, it would automatically be taken as security breach, harm, loss.
In this article from Mashable:
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A DDoS attack sends an extraordinary amount of traffic to server, [b]causing it to shut down, but it is not a hack.[/b] The attacker does not have to break into anything, and no account information was reportedly stolen from Play Station users.it did seem stupid when one of the arab news channels announced that "Sony is supplying Israel with military hardware" few weeks ago because they found that Sony sensor was used on Israeli missiles which they took on personal level... I wonder if the attacks had any correlation to that news story.
toasters in 3...2...
Sony needs to stem this as soon as possible. We as gamers know this isn't a hack, but to Johnny Stacks and the general public, anytime someone does something to an online network is considered a "hack". This in turn is going to spread like wildfire and only strengthen the "PS4 is selling better, but Xbox One doesn't get hacked!" narrative. Consumers afraid that the PS4 version of Destiny will be down on day one will have no choice, but to buy Xbox Ones and play Destiny on the better system. This in turn will cause PS4 sales to plummit as Xbox One will take Sept-December. Then Xbox will take its place back at the #1 spot while Nintendo and Sony try to play catchup with Poketekken and The Order: 1886 Setpieces. You could have prevented it Sony after 2012, but as the saying goes, "Fools who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Neuromancer
Member
Pretty much. September, October and November NPDs are going to be interesting.
As someone that was a Web Designer/Developer for a Forbes darling online retailer/manufacture of security systems with slightly suspicious backing from Honeywell. When we were DDoSed for about 25 days, we through money at it with services like Prolexic and all it did was make it so that people could access our network/store...sometimes. We're talking about people having a 60% chance page load and as slow as I've seen the internet since 56k days. It was a complete waste.
We did get a few days out of it where we didn't have much to do.
We did get a few days out of it where we didn't have much to do.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
I think it's down again
This is fucking dumb they need to get these people and put them away
PS app is working fine for me.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
nevermind it was my shitt&t
Dreamgazer
Member
Working fine for me.
Acquiescence
Member
M_A_C
Member
It won't make a difference. None of the average joes here at work even know anything about it even happening.
Live Free or Die
Banned
What the? They way they're obsessed with him I'm starting to think it was someone who was fired recently.
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