PSN, Battlenet, Riot, and others DDOSed; PSN returning lightly toasted with butter
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how much of a jackass can you be to tweet a bomb threat.
R3TRO
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Yeah, they crossed a line with that one; Video games might be one thing but bomb threats are taking things way too far.
Lmao source?
LollipoPReapeR
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So what happened guys? Lizards got thier asses busted?
LollipoPReapeR
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Well I played a couple of games of killzone a few hours ago. Seemed fine but laggier than usual.
There's no way to be immune. Sony could get a ridiculous amount of servers that could absorb a DDoS attack, but that's not profitable if it's just for gaming. Microsoft has a ridiculous amount of servers, but that's because it's not just for gaming.
Though I did hear that Sony was planning on beefing up their server infrastructure for the PS4 now that it's launchedl.
Seriously? Fucked up.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
There are DDoS mitigation options but for a network as large as Sony's (or Microsoft's, or most companies') it ain't gonna do a whole lot. The whole point of a DDoS is you have a distributed force of traffic where one individual IP doesn't look like it's attacking, making it harder for the server (or the admins working on the server) to determine what is or isn't legitimate traffic. Usually you can just black-hole the traffic up-stream but that means no one can get to the server. That is typically what occurs when the servers "go down" on a scale like this. The server is still up, but IP traffic has been black-holed.
There really isn't. Other people may be able to speak more concretely on this, but imagine that you have a store with a couple checkout lines, easily capable of handling a normal day of traffic. Now imagine if your store was flooded with people who started doing price checks on random things with no intention of buying anything, clogging up your checkout lines for your real customers. It can be very hard to distinguish who is a real customer, and who is there to just clog up the lines. You can open up more checkout lines (aka have a lot of servers/bandwidth), but ultimately, there's not a ton you can do about it. Eventually you may be able to filter out the fake customers, but you want to be careful that you don't turn away real customers either.
Live Free or Die
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Today video about the flight http://www.today.com/video/today/55929027#55929027
aspiegamer
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Funny thing is, from how that sequence was playing out at the time, it almost seemed like the bomb threat was accidental. Or at minimum that it was meant as a pile-on insult to the SOE guy and probably wasn't made with terrorism specifically in mind. I mean, the specific tweet in question is sort of a lame way to say "hey, this is a bomb threat!". Compared to all the other bits of bragging before and since like "ISIS > SONY, LOSERS" this was an absolutely massive escalation.
Well it doesn't matter. Find this guy and jail him, please. I'm amazed how freaking big a deal this has turned in to, but bomb threats on planes are serious shit. I live sorta-near a regional base that they scramble fighters from for stuff like this and you can predict when there'll be aviation news based on if you ever hear a pair screaming away. They haul ass, fly armed, and surely have a green light for supersonic if they feel it's warranted. Extremely intimidating.
Was just online playing with no problems. Seen a couple people online playing various games as well and some are streaming their games too.
pablonerru
Banned
Hopefully they get caught in time.
Pandora012
Member
Don't say that, I have my day planed around Destiny.
uh, what? it was pretty clearly a "concern trolling" way of making a bomb threat.
Yep. Lizard's twitter, "Aaaand, Twitch is gone."
AmethystEnd
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Morrigan Stark
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I don't get how this Twitter account can still be active...
I think they are targetting certain people. Classy bunch of kids they are.
Incriminating themselves
Hidden One
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This shits hilarious.
Yeah, they seem to be targetting Soda. "@sodapoppintv write lizardsquad on your forehead and we'll leave you alone forever"
Apparently Soda told lizardsquad to f off, then they started ddos'ing him.
They're about to start targeting the chat servers. great
Working great for me, watching Cosmo.
AmethystEnd
Member
Me too, lol.
It's not loading the front page at all for me right now... it has popped up a couple times, but the streams won't load at all in that case.
Edit: Okay so found a stream and it works, but with some issues, but twitch is def not in good shape atm.
Garrett 2U
Member
Yeah I was thinking about that.
That could really hurt Destiny's sales, which would be extremely unfortunate for such an ambitious new IP.
Hahaha, where is that from?
Yup, postponed.
Sweet.
Shitty BBQ.
They will be caught by then most likely.
It probably came up in this gigantic thread already, but just to add: my Xbox Live account has currently lost its subscription info and payment history, meaning that there is no Walking Dead: Episode 5 for me tonight. :-( According to the support the current general service availability problems are to blame.
Also, even network hackers aren't supporting Nintendo. Everything works fine on my Wii U.
Also, even network hackers aren't supporting Nintendo. Everything works fine on my Wii U.
perfectsil
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Bam Bam Baklava
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Imagine all those people trying to play Destiny AND these guys DDoS attacking at the same time. The server room will look like this.
Hero_of_the_Day
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I hope they catch them. Five years, damn.
Rule number one with mmoesque online only games....plan your vacation the week or two after launch, not the week where everyone is going to am servers and cause issues anyways
AmaterasuOni
Banned
I thought it's five to ten years from bomb threats to planes.