PSN, Battlenet, Riot, and others DDOSed; PSN returning lightly toasted with butter

Oh lol i just noticed the "nobody says mum in the UK" in the Tirle.
I'll never understand why someone would do stuff like this. Also i don't think there will be free Games. It's not like PSN was down for 3 Weeks.
not yet :ss
 
Sony didn't do anything wrong, and nobodies anything is compromised. You get nothing.

Depends how you look at it. When signing up for an online service, I have a reasonable expectation that it will be a reliable service. A few hiccups are acceptable, but prolonged service outages are not. As the customer, I don't really care the cause.
 
Money and tons of servers. I don't think Sony can afford the type of infrastructure Microsoft has setup. I work for a fortune 50 company that utilizes Azure. If those servers went down, we'd lose millions in sales per minute.

So, money and tons of servers will stop DDoS attacks?
 
So you're saying the people responsible for this are leaving Live completely alone and just targeting PSN?

As the thread title points out, not just PSN. But that aside, it's a matter of scale. Any service can be DDoSSed it's just a matter of what the scale needs to be to overwhelm the servers. We already damn well know that there are more servers behind azure, and by extension XBL, then PSN.
 
I'm not up to date on this much but why is there so much talk of hackers and hackings when it's just a DDoS?

Isn't that giving too much credit to them (unless they actually did 'hack' someone I guess)?
 
if this dude had half a brain he would have done this on 9/9 when everyone and their mother will be playing Destiny.

But that is none of my business.
 
Look at the fucking date and description, and try harder next time.

Get a grip.

I signed into my XBL account on Xbox.com a few minutes ago and I got an "Xbox Live Service alert" appearing in the banner at the top that shows that same message that's being quoted. Update message might be a couple of days old, but that banner alert is still active right now.

With all that's going on it's not like the confusion is hard to understand.

Then why is PSN down?

DDoS = "hacked"?
 
Yeah, they just keep tweeting about how much they love the Caliphate and how they dare the FBI to capture them from ISIS and shit.

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if this dude had half a brain he would have done this on 9/9 when everyone and their mother will be playing Destiny.

But that is none of my business.

I unfortunately think that's going to happen anyways. DDoS seem to happen all the time now with big online releases.
 
why so sensitive? of course i know whats going on, its all over the web, it was a little joke and you took it to serious, relax

Oh, okay. You made a joke that's already been made several dozen times. I simply thought it was more likely for someone to not be informed than stupid enough to think that was still somehow funny. Happy now?
 
This is so fucking annoying. My friend has my account as primary so we can share games, so I can't play a god damned thing. Had to happen on my day off too.
 
Probably the best way to handle a distributed attack is to distribute your own services. Sony take notice?

Also, if a service is being interrupted by any third party on purpose, the third party (a.k.a assholes) should pay for the potential revenue loss from the loss of operation of the said service. Like, they'd need to sell their bodies for the rest of their lives to pay for it. And I'm not even counting the fake bomb threat for airlines.

If anyone is doing this for shits and giggles, they should be shitting among giggling inmates for a respectable amount of time.

Also, I'm still not being able to sign on.
 
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