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LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the that's-a-lot-of-big-talk dept.

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.

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  1. Is it the Christians? by The-Ixian · · Score: 1, Funny

    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...

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