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Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline (csoonline.com)
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.
Never had any respect for lamers who just do DDOSs. That's not hacking, it's just being annoying. Doesn't take any special skills.
It's nothing like breaking through some code or router or something that actually proves that you are of elite intelligence.
Breaking directly into Blizzard is one thing, but just snowing them under with myriad packets just isn't impressive.
Find something else to do with your life.
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.
I don't respond to AC's.
It's funny how the DDOS of a gaming service is what it takes to get people upset here.
Attack a bank? Obviously they should have paid more attention to security - it's really their own fault.
Attack a politician? Well, they're evil anyway.
Attack someone suspected of a crime, even though they haven't stood trial? Well, these things happen.
Take down World of Warcraft? THIS SHALL NOT STAND!!
#DeleteChrome
...figure out the ping command. Sending packets? Only a mastermind.
It's like claiming you won a discussion by saying 'Nuh uhh' more times or a blunt object because you're too dumb to use words.
DDoS isn't hacking.
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I don't think you understand what "MMO"s are.
This isn't a case of people not being able to play single player games. Not even a case of people not being able to play something that could be reasonably hosted by individuals, such as Quake ][.
Multiplayer games do have a huge audience for which much of the appeal lies in the service having huge numbers of other players. I don't play any of them anymore, but I can see how this could be a problem for a large number of people.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
DDOS and actual hacking are not the same thing. Therefore your message is wrong. No one cares if you DDOS Trump or Clinton, will not even make the news.....
Comedy is when it happens to you.
Tragedy is when it happens to me.
Or something like that...
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Nah, that might make the news. Trump would go on twitter immediately and blame the wrong people.
DDOSing a bank is no hack, it gives you no access to money. Not a security issue, it's a network redundancy issue.
Not impressed with DDOS kiddies. It's like farting in church. Might drive a few people away.
But if you want to impress me: Build your own god.
With a name like AppleJ4ck, it does tell us that he's part of a team. Expect more hacks from Flutt3rShy, P1nkieP1e, R4riTy, Rainb0wD4sh and Tw1l1ghtSp4rkle.