PlayStation Network Outage Thread - Status Checker In OP

[tigertron]

What a bunch of retards. I hope they're caught and prosecuted by the fullest extent of the law.

[cbas593]

I hope Sony can get the group respnsible and get these issues fixed soon.

[Mavrick]

You can follow John Smedley (@j_smedley): https://twitter.com/j_smedley on Twitter for updates.

[Matt S]

Originally Posted by Tekka

I never would have guessed that would happen to the psn. Not after that last breach issue they had. I'd have thought they'd have made things robust enough to resist a ddos attack.

You would think......first time was bad enough, but to allow this a 2nd time is unacceptable.

What are we paying for with PSN? Not upgraded security, apparently

Originally Posted by Icemage

Uh, some of you guys realize that a DDoS is NOT a hack, yes?

Getting a Distributed Denial of Service attack is basically getting your network flooded with garbage information that then clogs up the information flow from legitimate users. It has nothing to do with your login security (which is what a hack is).

People use the term hack to mean, 'service being screwed with by bored 13 year olds....'

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Matt S

You would think......first time was bad enough, but to allow this a 2nd time is unacceptable.

What are we paying for with PSN? Not upgraded security, apparently




People use the term hack to mean, 'service being screwed with by bored 13 year olds....'

There's no way to protect yourself 100% against a ddos attack. No matter how much money you have.

[Elandyll]

It's reported that this same group is also attacking Blizzard, Riot (LoL) and Grinding gears.

Apparently earlier last week they also DDos the East coast servers of Valve...

Now that this same group of morons has more or less shown themselves as sympathizers with ISIL (wether as a joke or not), welcome on the CIA and NSA watchlists?

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Matt S

You would think......first time was bad enough, but to allow this a 2nd time is unacceptable.

What are we paying for with PSN? Not upgraded security, apparently

People use the term hack to mean, 'service being screwed with by bored 13 year olds....'

Did you even read my post? Sigh. People are idiots.

Again, this is NOT a security issue. There is no "hacking" happening here. You don't get to redefine a term that has been in use and defined for decades just because you're too clueless to know the right definition.

A DDoS is the equivalent of a hundred thousand spammers sending you junk email. They aren't hacking your account, they're just flooding your inbox so that the actual mail you want to recieve is hard to find and arrives late (if at all).

The only thing you can do to defend against a DDoS is try and block the traffic from the offending senders, but modern DDoS attacks often use computers compromised by viruses, so the data flood often comes from what would otherwise look like legitimate locations.

[KRW1]

Incredibly stupid thing to do. You can risk jail time for just carrying out a DDOS, but link yourself to a terrorist group as well? Asking for long, long sentences.


http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...-cyber-attacks

[Terjyn]

Sony's up and running, unfortunately these people are also ddosing internet routers around the country at the moment, so if your "path" to Sony runs through a place that has not fixed it yet you still can't get in.

*EDIT* Per Smedley anyway, I still can't get in.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

I was more thinking about the first attack that people where passing it of as just some angry kid getting back at sony which it just wasn't.

As for this one, it does sound like some basic security measures would make such issues moot and for large companies to not have these things in places is downright scary.

You should probably research how a DDoS works. It could happen to anyone.

[xXI GaMe IXx]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

A DDoS has zero access to information inside the network.

And DDoSs are already illegal, so how much more fire can you play with by throwing up stupid pictures?

They are associating themselves with a terrorist group. CIA , FBI are now on you

[MifuneFan]

They will no doubt have the FBI on their ass now since they're making claims of having explosives on a flight to LA.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

They will no doubt have the FBI on their ass now since they're making claims of having explosives on a flight to LA.

For real? Man, some of these kids are beyond stupid...

[Mavrick]

They're also tweeting the flight number J Smedly was on claiming there were bombs on board.... What a bunch of idiots.

[Mavrick]

Have to admit this made me laugh a little

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Have to admit this made me laugh a little

Hah! Love that fake twitter account.

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

They're also tweeting the flight number J Smedly was on claiming there were bombs on board.... What a bunch of idiots.

Apparently they were posting pictures of the IS flag. I didn't think humanity could become this stupid, but I guess they've been successful in lowering the bar even further.

[Bizdady]

Now theyre posting 911 videos with the Prag for flight 362 tag. Hope these little runts get caught.

[Bizdady]

Looks like the flight got redirected. Feds going to be all up in this now.

John Smedley @j_smedley · 4m
Awesome. Flight diverted to Phoenix for security reasons.

https://twitter.com/j_smedley

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

Looks like the flight got redirected. Feds going to be all up in this now.

John Smedley @j_smedley · 4m
Awesome. Flight diverted to Phoenix for security reasons.

https://twitter.com/j_smedley

There's no way these guys are adults, this has to be a bunch of teenagers thinking they're freaking hilarious. JusT look what happened to the guys a few years they got a nice prison term, hopefully these guys do too.

I think this falls under terror laws and natural security so punishment should be more severe.