LIZARD SQUAD is Back. Planning XBL Attack. "Biggest attack yet". [UP: XBL/PSN Down]

Panajev2001a said:
Shooting them is of course going way overboard, but I am quite sick of the "son ragazzi"/"just kids" excuse too. Teens throwing rocks at cars on highway bridges == "ragazzata"/"kids fooling around"... No, just no...
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I'm not using kids as an excuse, I was talking about shooting them is some extreme shit. Lock them up and teach them a lesson for all I care.
 
npa189 said:
I still don't believe it, are DDOS attacks really this easy, and hard to fight against? Am I really going to have to watch The Interview on my goddamn Wii U?
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Yes they are that easy, 13 year old kids can copy that IP, go to a DDoS attack website, paste the IP, pay whatever charge the website asks for, and bam they have initiated a DDoS attack against a multi-billion dollar company.......
 
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As long as nobody is doing a thing to them then they will keep doing this kind of shit. I wish they would do something good like going after those that hacked Sony or something but no. I just want to know what's the point? What are they wanting to gain from all of this?

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The Albatross said:
Whenever things go down or are brought down it highlights weaknesses in game and console design that should be done better. I'm trying to play Dragon Age: Inquisition and it's a chore, also because Xbox keeps logging me out... Randomly will say "Bye Albatross!" and then I'll get booted back to the title screen of DA:Inquisition. And then, to get into the game, it will try ti "Sync" my cloudsave, whcih it obviously can't do because Xbox Live is down.

So I'll go back into the game, it'll try to sync, which takes 30 seconds, it will eventually say, we can't sync, play off line, so I'll go to do that... It'll get in, I'll start playing for 10 minutes, and then again say, "Bye Albatross!" and I'll get booted back to the title screen.

I'm the only profile on my Xbox, so I can't see any reason why it would ever want to log me out and log into a different profile... It just doesn't make any sense.
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Does it help if you cut your XBox connection to the internet completely?
 
SRTtoZ said:
Fuck all these PS4 games I got, I guess ill go play ZombiU (got it for xmas).
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I had a round at Plants vs. Zombies about 20 minutes ago. Then again I've been logged since 7:00 am I think. East Coast U.S.

Friend list is down.
PS Store is down.

I guess those who logged in early don't get the boot. Those that want to log-in can't. PS4 of course.
 
Death Metalist said:
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As long as nobody is doing a thing to them then they will keep doing this kind of shit. I wish they would do something good like going after those that hacked Sony or something but no. I just want to know what's the point? What are they wanting to gain from all of this?

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Because it's funny right?
 
e90Mark said:
If you're installing from a disc, not being able to connect to Live shouldn't hinder anything. Same with PS4.

Both platforms' stores are down.
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Well, I don't know, I started the Xbone, passed the update installer, put Forza Horizon 2 into the bluray reader, and... Impossible to install anything. Error.

:-(
 
For Fuck sakes. I just got an Xbox One for Xmas and I really wanna play some MCC.

Why hasnt the FBI or the NSA dealt with these asshats already. Why they gotta ruin peoples Christmases
 
Both Psn and live are down for me :/ I thought I could play a little online before I head out to the gf's family's house for Christmas.
 
soxxx said:
Because its impossible to locate them, they arent launching the attacks from their computers, they are paying others to launch the attacks from IPs that are probably 100s of miles away from them, and from there those attacks are forwarded to your grandmas computer that has malware installed on it, so essentially these attacks are coming from the common folk (obviously they have no idea they have malware on their computer, and have no idea they are involved)....
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So that Twitter account can't be traced?
 
soxxx said:
Yes they are that easy, 13 year old kids can copy that IP, go to a DDoS attack website, paste the IP, pay whatever charge the website asks for, and bam they have initiated a DDoS attack against a multi-billion dollar company.......
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Except there aren't many that have the capacity to successfully execute that on this scale. It takes a massive botnet for that.

DDoS itself isn't hard, but the scale it is executed on is somewhat impressive. And of course they got a lot of help thanks to the extra influx of Christmas gifts.
 
Frabba said:
Yeah, because that's totally viable when dealing with millions of legitimate users in addition to thousands/millions of compromised hosts, some of which may in fact be sharing the same public IP address due to things like campus environments.

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So would you rather have a few users that are gaming on a static, shared (ie; campus) IP temporarily blocked for 24-48 hours or have hundreds of thousands of users unable to connect?

Doesn't make sense. Sony and Microsoft dropped the ball on this one, they had plenty of warning.
 
Can we stop giving these kids attention? I'm as annoyed as everyone here because I cannot access the PS Store for some things I wanted to buy, but this thread doesn't really help.
 
The Albatross said:
Whenever things go down or are brought down it highlights weaknesses in game and console design that should be done better. I'm trying to play Dragon Age: Inquisition and it's a chore, also because Xbox keeps logging me out... Randomly will say "Bye Albatross!" and then I'll get booted back to the title screen of DA:Inquisition. And then, to get into the game, it will try ti "Sync" my cloudsave, whcih it obviously can't do because Xbox Live is down.

So I'll go back into the game, it'll try to sync, which takes 30 seconds, it will eventually say, we can't sync, play off line, so I'll go to do that... It'll get in, I'll start playing for 10 minutes, and then again say, "Bye Albatross!" and I'll get booted back to the title screen.

I'm the only profile on my Xbox, so I can't see any reason why it would ever want to log me out and log into a different profile... It just doesn't make any sense. Like, why would you need to ping Xbox Live to sign in as your profile on your console...

Console makers need to do a better job of creating a 'fail state' when something is down. When the console first boots up or at an interval, it tests your connection, and if things are down, then it goes into a fail state mode: Offline profile, doesn't try to do cloud sync, doesn't try to download updates, etc., then sends an offline signal to the game so that the game just plays it's default offline status. Up and down times are going to happen, and in this day and age, online networks will be brought down by losers like these "hacker" groups. They're inevitabilities and the console and game manufacturers need to do better jobs to provide for a fail state when they inevitably happen.



Oh, sweet, this actually solved most of my rant up there. Although Dragon Age is still perpetually trying to connect to EA servers... but whatever. Good enough
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It doesn't do that on ps4 (digital copy primary ps4 so home console)
 
Why not attack the eShop servers too, Lizard Squad? Are you a bunch of consolist bastards?

(Do we know if these are entry level script kiddies that got lucky, or a more experienced hacking group?)
 
soxxx said:
Because its impossible to locate them, they arent launching the attacks from their computers, they are paying others to launch the attacks from IPs that are probably 100s of miles away from them, and from there those attacks are forwarded to your grandmas computer that has malware installed on it, so essentially these attacks are coming from the common folk (obviously they have no idea they have malware on their computer, and have no idea they are involved)....
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No one is impossible to find. People always make at least one mistake (we are all human after all). It is just really hard to find them.
 
I'm sure this has been answered but is there no way to play offline since you can't sign in? I read somewhere about setting the Xbox as your 'Home Xbox' but it appears you have to be online to this. My kids just want to play Lego Batman.
 
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