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Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline (csoonline.com)

Posted by msmash on from the another-day,-another-hack dept.

Reader itwbennett writes: A person nicknamed AppleJ4ck, who has been previously been linked to Lizard Squad, a group notorious for DDoS attacks against gaming platforms, including the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, has taken credit for server outages affecting gaming giant Blizzard (Alternate source: ZDNet) Monday morning. The outages led to authentication lockouts for gamers attempting to access Overwatch, Hearth Stone, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Stone, and others. During the outage, AppleJ4ck said Monday's problems were just a test, promising more outages in the future.

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  1. Internet not designed for this by DogDude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is going to keep happening, because the Internet was never, every designed for something like this. Security is near impossible, because it was designed to be an OPEN system, not a closed one, with security everywhere. Like it or not, the Internet is going to continue to break in bigger and bigger ways.

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    1. Re:Internet not designed for this by fustakrakich · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It may have been designed to be open, but in practice it suffers a deep mono-culture of protocols (DNS and DHCP) and a lack of redundancy, especially at the proverbial "last mile", where the ISP can 'drop anchor' on your connection on a whim. It is still not an ad hoc network, which it needs to be if it is to be truly open, and if you want to keep it from breaking.

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  2. Didn't affect me by The-Ixian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I played WoW pretty much all weekend and did not encounter any issues.

    Hopefully apple jack continues to throw this level of expertise at the "real" attack.

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  3. Re:DDOS is lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've said it before and I'll say it again.

    DDOSing is the online equivalent of the 3 stooges getting stuck in a door.

    Morons like that deserve to be smacked across the face, at minimum. Doing it on purpose to keep others out deserves what another AC said - to be skinned alive on public display to inform others of what they can expect for themselves if they want to be "cool" like that. I do not believe in reforming people who are willfully malicious. Snuff them out.

  4. Someone put out the memo by stealth_finger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DDoS isn't hacking.

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