Nope still offline. Even the playstation app isn't working.
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PSN, Battlenet, Riot, and others DDOSed; PSN returning lightly toasted with butter
- Thread starter madmackem
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Nope still offline. Even the playstation app isn't working.
the same reason most people do DDoS attacks, for shits and giggles.
Uno Venova
Banned
It's like people almost want another PSN hack with the conclusions they jump to.
i want that year of identity protection breh
Rebel Leader
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You were lucky one one service and unlucky on the other. That's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Fun.
EL CUCO
Member
They're just slamming the servers. That's whats causing the outage
Rebel Leader
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Get 500 people though a 1 person door all at once.
dancegrenade
Member
What the hell is going on in this thread?
CoolZombie360
Member
Because they are a bunch of losers with nothing better to do but cause inconvenience to other people 😒
Winter John
Member
I'm glad I read some of the thread before switching on my PS4. Just turned it on and there was nothing but a blue screen, no menu at all. Disconnected the internet cable and the menu popped up. At least now I can play Diablo 3 on single player.
iceatcs
Junior Member
Not very easy if the servers already so popular demand. Esp like that PSN servers have many requests all the time.
Change the port to hide away from the same DDoS attack.
Serviam
Member
Im connected to PSN now but I was to quick with my post. Still not connecting to my PS4, but at least its now searching over the internet. Before it died at searching locally.
Worst timing for PSN being down...
It is not the companies fault as the Attackers are using the internet to send massive amoun ts of fake requests to the server till it overloads and crashes. only defense against it is to shut the server down.
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Pandora012
Member
What is the point of doing this?
HassanJamal
Member
Everyone is susceptible to this, the only thing that matters is how determined attackers are. They can spread their own viruses that can take control of thousands of PCs all around the world, they can purchase additional "pre-loaded" groups of PCs, and then they can control them all to send incredible amount of bandwidth toward chosen servers. They are just bombarding them with bandwidth, making regular users unable to break through.
There is no absolute defense from this.
MMaRsu
Banned
Lol some anecdotal shit right there. Didnt a ton of ppl get hacked on xbl for fifa points?
Booker Dewitt
Member
Mobile Suit Gooch
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Link?
legacyzero
Banned
Spectral Entity
Member
Is this what happened to XBL yesterday afternoon as well?
Yes it seemed to originate from xbox live.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
well i think someone is doing something to lizard too because you cannot access their irc anymore
Rebel Leader
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nope
actually they're probably using a dns amplification attack https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A
it's the most popular one these days, you don't even need your own botnet
Pandora012
Member
??
Seriously?
It wouldnt be Neogaf without someone randomly blaming the evil, white male 'patriarchy' for something.
legacyzero
Banned
Bo Knows GAF
Member
I hope this is true. I always wonder if when something like this happens, a much better hacker somewhere is effected and pissed off.
Baron Von Beans
Member
I dunno if it's still down for people, but it's workin for me 
BronsonLee
Member
What a waste of time. All they're doing is dropping the service for a few hours in the damn morning.
The exact same happened to me on my Xbox 360 in 2012; fuck EA and their Ultimate Team bullshit that pushes idiots to do this.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
they keep calling out anonymous so i think they may get involved lol
protomouse
Member
Let's hope that this is just a DoS attack. It's not unheard of for such attacks to be used as a flanking maneuver for intrusions. I assume Sony have taken necessary precautions to make sure history doesn't repeat itself, though. Sucks for everyone involved .
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Its crazy. I work for a large multinational banks IT team, and co-ordinate with our Global Infrastructure Security framework. We spend insane figures to mitigate this stuff, routing Datacentre traffic through dedicated secure external pathways, and still get hit and impacted.
Its bullshit teenage logic for justifying illicit activity.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Just logged in on PS3. Store was "under maintenance" though. Booting up gta online now.
edit: can play online, good.
edit: can play online, good.
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