Our IT department is tiny. Our clients' IT departments, not so much.
Load balancing and failover has nothing to do with manpower. It's pure dollars and risk tolerance.
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Load balancing and failover has nothing to do with manpower. It's pure dollars and risk tolerance.
No nothing like that.
When i attempt to log into psn on my ps4 it says connection to server has been lost. But it is getting past the authentication server, because it can tell me if my password is wrong.
PooBone
Member
My first 40 hours with an Xbox One has been a nightmare. The only game I have is Master Chief Collection, which has frozen in single player games, achievements that fail to unlock (11 currently say "Done, unlocking!") and terminals that load up a separate app and then fail to work. Music that plays in main menu when it's not supposed to, sound effects getting stuck in loops and going constantly until reload the level, all stuff that never happened in the 360 version of CEA. (the only part I've played so far) The snap function on the Xbox One IS completely busted right? Hasn't worked properly for me a single time, just gives me error codes, whether I'm trying to look at achievements or watch my own TV.
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so what happens when those threshold get maxed out? more dollars, more risk? What is the breaking point for Sony if botnets are more easily scale-able than IT infrastructure?
it's about integrity. you cant protect every store with a police force.
Dr Amazon MD
Member
But why spend millions to increase mitigation when another group can just rent more botnets and launch a larger attack. It would be a never ending battle if this scenario continued.
Malcolm9
Member
For being out for a day or two, ok then....
I managed to sign into PSN but I cant activate my ps4 as my primary console.
There really should be a PSA that in order to play games offline you need to activate your console, an annoying feature that I can't believe didn't happen on startup.
Well I'll just start minecraft and not turn off the PS4 all day -.-
There really should be a PSA that in order to play games offline you need to activate your console, an annoying feature that I can't believe didn't happen on startup.
Well I'll just start minecraft and not turn off the PS4 all day -.-
The resulting downtime each holiday season is just evidence that Sony doesn't see PSN as a major revenue center - it's a periphery service in terms of revenue generation compared to the physical business. The other clients I referred to effectively only have a single core product - the web service - so even 48 hours downtime would be catastrophic. If it was, Sony would be paying out the ass for hardware after hardware.
Your metaphor doesn't make any sense.
The security industry is still in a place where the malicious actors are "winning" due to asymmetric costs. It's much easier to spear phish a naive employee or DDoS than to protect and restrict every single device. The only good thing to come out of the constant retail breaches and service unavailability from the past 14~ months is that security budgets are skyrocketing across the board. I think Gartner estimates about a 3-fold increase in 2015 from 2014.
Marvel
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Ooccoo
Member
Time and time again it's been proven than an online-only future is abysmal. When so many games rely on the Internet to even WORK, you know there's a problem. The infrastructure just isn't ready yet. If kids can bring down entire networks what does it tell about the whole thing?
I'm happy I lived in the golden age of gaming. I grew up with classics like Mario Bros. 3, Contra, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, etc. Most of the games today are either broken or incomplete. Want to play Destiny? Good luck. The industry took a nosedive when publishers realized they could make you pay $100+ for a single game with DLC on the disc. And you still bought the games even though you were getting the middle fingers from basically everyone but Nintendo.
Blame yourselves.
I'm happy I lived in the golden age of gaming. I grew up with classics like Mario Bros. 3, Contra, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, etc. Most of the games today are either broken or incomplete. Want to play Destiny? Good luck. The industry took a nosedive when publishers realized they could make you pay $100+ for a single game with DLC on the disc. And you still bought the games even though you were getting the middle fingers from basically everyone but Nintendo.
Blame yourselves.
The Wise Old Man
Member
Spot on. Both companies need to buy more server farms, invest in advanced coolant tech to keep everything frosty and beef up their firewall protection scheme ASAP in order to keep these marauding lizard men at bay. Everything needs to be off the grid and cloud synced to ensure a minimum of packet loss. Our enjoyment as gamers depends upon these immediate urgent measures.
Any other woefully uninformed people want to bitch about what Microsoft or Sony should be doing to prevent an IT intrusion from occurring that they have zero understanding of?
Reality check fuck heads: when Home Depot, Target, or Chase get hacked, we don't get free chocolate covered lobsters or sexual favors from their staff. We get increased pricing due to the overhead costs incurred by strengthening network security to keep up with constantly advancing hack attempts.
Blame whatever societal breakdowns are happening that foster this kind of antisocial and malevolent behavior frim these "hactivists". Don't blame the companies targeted for cyber rape by these misguided madmen.
CosmicQueso
Member
Might as well just give up then. Back to playing Operation and Risk on the floor everyone! Who's up for a quick 6 hour game of Axis & Allies?
Everything was better when I was 12.
But if I blame and bitch enough to Sony and Microsoft I might get a free game. Like Nintendo did with the ambassador program and Ubi did with the Unity season pass. Maybe if I pound the ground and cry really hard on tweeterz Sony will finally put Knack on PS+ as compensation! I victim blame cuz it gets me free stuff most of the time now!
It's abysmal until we get to the point where digital distribution outpaces physical distrubtrion with consoles. That's when there will be a dramatic shifting of priorities by the platform holders.
WooHooAlex
Member
So what has happened in last 8 hours or so?
What did I miss?
What did I miss?
loool
CosmicQueso
Member
Victim blaming, entitlement, old people yelling at clouds, "all you have to do to fix this is..." nonsense.
MickeyPhree
Member
Haven't messed with my MTU settings, but my friends list is now working. Store under going maintenance.
EDIT: south florida
EDIT: south florida
i literally said you cant protect everything due to cost. how does my metaphor not make sense, you pretty much backed it up in the next paragraph.
and you establish interfaces with those companies with robust networks, you dont know what they are doing on their end to mitigate anything. All you need is file requirements, tables, fields, and an ip to establish an ICA.
WooHooAlex
Member
Im not disagreeing with you, but wasn't there a time when those cartridges cost upwards of $100?
The reality is that the identity of the malicious actor doesn't matter. All they're doing is exploiting a vulnerability that the next guy could have exploited.
Target - their vendors has access to internal systems without strict auth rules
Home Depot - outdated and overly privileged Point of Sales clients
Chase - one block of employees didn't need 2FA to login into the VPN
Sony Pictures - too many to count, but let's start with storing critical company data and employee data in fucking plaintext in xls and doc files and sharing passwords via email
Target - their vendors has access to internal systems without strict auth rules
Home Depot - outdated and overly privileged Point of Sales clients
Chase - one block of employees didn't need 2FA to login into the VPN
Sony Pictures - too many to count, but let's start with storing critical company data and employee data in fucking plaintext in xls and doc files and sharing passwords via email
neoism
Member
. this worked playing bf4 
<3Dr Amazon MD
Member
One of the Anon Twitters are claiming they took out one of the lizardsquad websites, and they're creating an OPlizardsquad or some shit. I hard to tell if any of it's real with so many trolls and fake twitter accounts.
quickwhips
Member
Cisco?
Nestled_Grizzly
Member
It keeps telling me my ID or password is wrong everytime I sign in. Sigh
test_account
XP-39C²
I dont think hyperbole is necessary (saying that most of the games today are either broken or incomplete). There are so many games coming out these days. And just because additional content comes out later doesnt mean that the game is incomplete. Incomplete to me means that key things are missing. Imagine playing Super Mario Bros 3 and getting to the last level, then starting it would just make the game restart. That would be an incomplete game to me.
gregor7777
Banned
PSN is still down? WTF
why are you talking about actual vulnerabilities due to exploits when this is a DDoS attack?
test_account
XP-39C²
I would say that it matters. Thats the difference between "white hat" and "black hat". Its perfectly possible to inform about those exploits without taking advantages of them.
I would guess that he is talking more in general about security, not comparing a DDOS attack (which indeed isnt exactly an exploit).
Muffin Awesome
Member
I am officially going to sell my PS4 and build a PC. This isn't going to stop. Progressively will get worse and worse.
I could be completely ignorant, but I feel that Steam encounters much less significant downtimes.
I could be completely ignorant, but I feel that Steam encounters much less significant downtimes.
Nestled_Grizzly
Member
Edit.
Nevermind. I forgot I changed my password a few weeks ago. Stupid me
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
How are you playing Uncharted 4, Bloodborne and
The Last Guardian
Dr Amazon MD
Member
Haha, I was wondering the same thing.
MMaRsu
Member
Uhhhh okay have fun without all those great 2015 exclusives I guess.
CosmicQueso
Member
gregor7777
Banned
Not to start this shit up but PC has a crazy awesome lineup of 2015 exclusives.
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MickeyPhree
Member
Enjoy.
Give it some time things will get better also do you want to miss out on the great games coming out new year.
It wouldn't tell you that unless it was actually being entered incorrectly.
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13000 is a very low number