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Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down
This morning, Sony's PlayStation network was knocked offline for North American users. According to ShackNews,
Several tweets have gone up throughout Saturday evening, in which Lizard Squad has taken responsibility for the attacks. The group started with Blizzard's servers that include Hearthstone, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and others. The group quickly spread to League of Legends and Path of Exile before deciding to spread their terror to PlayStation Network.
Sony apparently had some trouble admitting that the network wasn't behaving as it should be, but came around with acknowledgment on twitter.
Why do they always have to do this when I have a bout of insomnia and would really like to get online and shoot some Geth? Ugh.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Saw some anger against Lizard Squad on Twitter, and after looking into it, I'm not sure but it certainly appears that they called in a bomb threat on a flight the Sony CEO (or some other bigwig, I forget) was taking, and ended up getting it grounded. There's some other claims about them being based in the so called Islamic State in Iraq, challenging FBI agents to come and get them.
Get raped, faggot.
Well now. That's no way for an executive of Sony to act, especially the CIO.
Suddenly the world was more productive!
Someone who has enough skill to use the Other OS function probably has enough skill to install CFW. None of the people that I know that actually use Other OS are currently affected by the removal of Other OS. Script kiddies attacking PSN doesn't affect Sony as much as it affects the users that play online or pay for the service.
Yea considering they attacked bunch of other games networks that have nothing to do with playstation, doubt that was the reason.
Nothing is secure no matter how much money you put in to it.
Beacuse no one ever DoSes PC
Well, take a look at these:
https://twitter.com/LizardSquad
http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/25/psn-ddos-hacker-bomb-threats-john-smedley-soe-fbi/
It's very irresponsible for you to ascribe such a reprehensible and homophobic sentiment to the CIO of Sony.
That comment was clearly made by the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Shawn Layden.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Get raped, faggot.
I just paid my taxes. Next month, perhaps?
Lisias@Earth.SolarSystem.OrionArm.MilkyWay.Local.Virgo.Universe.org
Aren't you glad that you play games that require connection to Playstation Network?
You know this never happened when people were playing Starcraft on dedicated servers. When you let one company be the nexus for your ability to use an expensive piece of equipment like a Playstation, you have to expect that some days you just won't be able to play the games that you bought.
You are welcome on my lawn.
before deciding to spread their terror to PlayStation Network.
Terror?
These are games, people. Yeah, they are jerks and should be smacked around for it, but let's not lose our minds.
XBox owners don't have any reason to fear losing next weekend services, while PSN users will live the week worrying about.
Oh rly?
Xbox Live Experiencing Issues, PSN Attackers Taking Credit
As somebody who spent most of the day yesterday on the sofa with his PS3 and PS4...
- First of all, this wasn't just the US. Europe was affected as well.
- Disc-based games were working fine all day on both consoles. I've seen FUD above suggesting that always-online connections may be required for these. They aren't. Certainly, MS wanted to do that until the 2013 E3 (and I'll bet Sony gave it a lot of thought as well), but it never actually happened. Single-player modes of disc-based games were fine all day.
- Providing the console you were using was set as one of your primary consoles, then downloaded games (including PS+ games) were also fine all day.
- Basic login was down at first but came back after a couple of hours. Barring a couple of glitchy periods, it was mostly up through the rest of the day. Cloud save functions were working whenever basic login was up.
- Online matchmaking also came online a few times during the afternoon, though never really for long enough for a proper multiplayer session.
- The PS Store and Account Management features were off until quite late last night, When basic login was up, trying to access these gave a "this service is currently undergoing maintenance" error message, implying Sony had taken them down deliberately as part of the effort to keep basic login and matchmaking working. With Account Management offline, the option to re-download content you'd already purchased was also offline.
As of this morning, everything seems to be fine again. What was interesting was how the timing (on a Sunday, and a Sunday followed by a public holiday in several parts of the world) affected both the Sony response (which in communications terms was extremely slow) and the media-coverage (which was virtually non-existent for most of yesterday).
Griefing in EVE not caused by Goon Fleet?
I'm shocked. Like, genuinely shocked.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Spelling properly will help others to treat you opinions with more respect.
I prefer to respect people for their opinions, not their grammar. As you can easily note. ;-)
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