Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage

An anonymous reader writes: The Phantom Squad hacking group appears to have anticipated its own Christmas schedule for attacks on the Xbox and PlayStation networks by taking credit for a three-hour outage on Xbox Live services in the last 24 hours. Apparently the group, which has disassociated itself from the Christmas 2014 attacks on the PS4 network, claims like them to be engaging in PenSec testing for gaming networks, and before itsTwitter account was suspended tweeted: 'If cyber security really has existed. Then what we do should not be possible.'

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Re:Ahhh yes

[ArmoredDragon]

I think what they mean is that the internet as a whole just basically lacks cybersecurity. There really is more we can do to stop it, such as mandatory throttling and/or disconnecting of users that are known to be running compromised systems. Do it on a global scale with i.e. a treaty organization whose sole purpose is to protect the internet infrastructure itself (i.e. no intellectual property trolling, anti-terrorism, anti-fraud, etc, just nothing but an organization that sets rules and standards for making sure that even if Dr. Evil wants to take over the world using the internet and make mankind become slaves to Kodos, that's fine, just so long as the internet itself remains functioning and nobody is subject to having their internet services subject to ransom by DDoS kiddies.)

And nobody noticed

[Anonymous Coward]

Because they were watching star wars.

Re:And nobody noticed

[Z00L00K]

And nobody really cares if services like Xbox Live goes down. It's only affecting a few users.

But if it was an impact on Wall Street then it would be headlines all over.

It's boring.

[tgibson]

It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.

Re:It's boring.

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.

Bingo, and well said.

These little wankers haven't done anything except show that it's easier to break stuff than to make stuff.

It's like throwing a rock through a window and then bragging about it, as if it had taken the slightest bit of skill or intelligence or insight, or anything.

Honestly, if someone hunted these pukebags down and beat the living shit out of them, I'd have a hard time feeling but joy about it. I know it would be wrong, but I'd be hard pressed to condemn it.

Security? watev dude

[JustNiz]

I laugh at the way they act like theyr'e some kind of 'l33t hax0rs' and they talk all about security of Microsoft/Sonys networks, but all they're doing is some lame skript kiddy DDOS that doesnt actually penetrate any security at all.

Re:Security? watev dude

[fred911]

Actually ....the internet grew from ARPANET who's goal was to exploit new computer technologies to meet the needs of military command and control against nuclear threats, achieve survivable control of US nuclear forces, and improve military tactical and management decision making.