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LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Last year on Christmas, the LizardSquad hacking group took down PSN and Xbox Live for many hours via DDoS attacks. This year another group, called Phantom Squad, is planning the same thing. The group has been launching small test attacks on PSN, Xbox, Reddit, SWOTR, and other game servers over the past few days.
I don't understand why? Seriously, I don't get it.
Is this just the modern day equivalent of throwing a rock through a shop window in the middle of the night; an act perpetrated by frightened little children acting out?
It could be North Korea threatening war again.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Let us punish the children for, well, something...
At least that new bill allows the CIA/NSA to find them easier.
Do they do this because it is funny? I don't understand...
This is why we still need it. Total fucking assholes.
Yeah, you know, because people who don't share your values must be crushed.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth from gamers last year was goddamned hilarious, as they were forced to spend Christmas (gasp!) WITH THEIR FAMILY rather than becoming zombies in front of the TV.
Personally I'm all for making taking down PSN and Xbox Live on Christmas an annual tradition. Fuck gamers. Spend time with your family, nerds.
Yes, Phantom Squad will certainly be spending time with their families and not, say, taking down PSN and Xbox LIVE purely to spite others.
Irony. Using "nerds" as a pejorative on a site tag-lined, "News for nerds".
Because we're not allowed to sit down and game with our children? Go enjoying watching your family get drunk and fight.
I found the leader of Phantom Squad, guys. So, you and your buddies downloaded a ddos script? Good for you! Learn how to program and get a job.
What a bunch of moronic pussies.
What are they trying to prove? That they can ruin the holidays for a bunch of kids? Wow what a bunch of cretins.
Theyre not even doing anything semi-intelligent like actually hacking, just doing yet another boringly unoriginal Skript Kidde-like DDOS.
woo. Big woop.
Yeah. Vanity fair is more his speed... or maybe muffington boast.
Maybe talk to a therapist rather than spewing your ignorant hate.
As if no one in the world spends time PLAYING VIDEO GAMES ONLINE WITH THEIR FAMILIES during the holidays.
And at least a couple of Lizard Squad idiots were forced to spend HARD TIME (gasp!) behind fucking bars for their hacking crimes.
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I see no point in this. Its like stalling a car in an intersection and then taking credit for making everything come to a standstill. Any fool can do it. If you want to impress someone, make the system work better, not worse.
Offering free penetration testing to Microsoft and Sony, at the risk of jailtime and potential civil actions being brought against them? That's all incredibly generous.
Maybe either MS or Sony or both will have a solution to the ddos this time around? We'll just have to see. Let the penetration testing begin!
We hackers that deserve the name and love software and computers should search out these asshats and clean their clocks. This is very uncool.
They say they do it "because we can". They argue if you make it in any way possible for them to DDoS you, you deserve it. There is a limit to how much of an attack you can stop, and even the best planned network is going to go down if you hit it hard enough.
Bunch of pathetic losers who get off on pirated porn and ruining christmas for kids.
-- Will program for bandwidth
You can still "sit down and game with your children", as long as they are in the same house. Just play on your local LAN, socially, with people in the same room. Problem solved.
set up a situation, and see what fixes it. then, for the real attack, allow for the previous fix.
... I suspect sitting around alone playing games or otherwise staring at a screen aren't likely among the best choices.
That's funny - when this happened, the prevailing sentiment on slashdot was to call for the utter destruction of Sony as a company.
Now that someone wants to contribute to that destruction, suddenly, Sony is good again and is an innocent victim.
Funny how that works.
it's already funny and it hasn't even begun!
Perhaps it is Christian fundamentalists trying to makes sure that kids spend time with their family rather than play video games.
That's about the only reason I could come up with...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Pfft, REAL gamers use a magnetised needle and a steady hand.
Can't spend the holiday with people that actually care about them so they sit at their computer and try to mess it up for other people. Definition of "loser".
probably the brainwashing of their children
Script kiddy pussies. Try something original: do something that is actually useful.
The 80's called, they want their stereotypes back.
Besides, who spends the entirety of Christmas Day with their family outside of little kids? We go over for dinner around 2:00 we leave around 6:00. We all live fairly close by so it isn't like we never see each other. I doubt I am that far off from average in that regard. I know I will be pissed if I can't enjoy playing my new game console on the one day I have off.
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They type DDoS as DDOS, they don't understand the concept of grey-hat hacking. They've claimed they've been testing servers with attacks, with no downtime or proof. I can already see this will be the worst DDoS attack ever.
because their waifus and scalie vore fantasies live there in Smash. Millenial kids these days
even the best planned network is going to go down if you hit it hard enough.
That's the rub. Hitting it hard enough. As of five years ago, Amazon was beyond reach of these little babies.
and then kill them. They offer nothing to society and the faster this kind of bullshit is seen to be fatal the beter.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
I see a lot of people with low UID asking why, and insulting these script kiddies for what they are planning on doing, giving exactly the sort of reaction these script kiddies are looking for. Haven't you learned by now? When peeps going trolling, you go ignoring. Never feed the trolls. Yet all I see is crying and whining and insults getting flung around. You keep feeding the trolls. You are giving them the reaction they are looking for, and they haven't done shit yet.
Guess what? If they do DDOS the various game networks, so fucking what? You going to cry in front of your kids about how these script kiddies are ruining Xmas for everyone? You going to throw a temper tantrum like a kid? Grow the fuck up. So what if they want to ruin Xmas for people who get new video games? Why are you letting them ruin your xmas? And why you giving them what they want, attention?
If you are smart (which by posts I am guessing you aren't), you will either give your kids the video games early so they can get them activated (so lame you need to activate games online before you can play them) so they can at least play single player mode if the networks go down. Or just tell your kids to enjoy the holidays doing something other then play video games.
Whatever you do, quit getting mad at the script kiddies, quit insulting them, quit asking fucking why and just accept that giving attention to trolls just makes them do other things for attention. Ignore them.
Be seeing you...
Oh goody! Let's play "Spot the NSA plant".
Script Kiddy: "Alright! Lets c wut this DDOS can do!"
C:\>pingattack reddit.com
Invalid command or file name!
C:\>help pingattack
Help: No help available.
C:\>ping reddit.com
Invalid command or file name!
C:\>ver
MS. DOS 2.11 [Version 2.11.0]
Script Kiddy: "I said DDOS not DOS Jimmy! ARGH!"
Jimmy: I though u wur l33ting up teh DOS wit teh extra D. LOL!!1!!11
You guys are giving these script kiddies more credit than they ever deserve.
On top of the other replies, what about people who have no family? It isn't like everyone has people to spend the holidays with.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Go ahead, take my network away, I'm doing single player bitches
Last I checked, Lizard Squad got caught. Not sure why this copycat group believes the same won't happen to them.
This is neither funny nor does it do anyone any good so hopefully they reconsider before going through with something so foolish.
play original nintendo problem solved