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PSN Servers down?
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And, say, gaming services?
Were they to be attacking banks and infrastructure, that's serious business. Attacking PSN is a crime, certainly. It's hardly on the level that it cannot be joked about though. It's not on the level of "Three Jews walk into an oven, and the first one says..."
Before you all flame me, understand that I used that as example to illustrate that some crimes just aren't to be joked about. Joking about the Holocaust is off-colour at best, pretty much all the time. Even though I've explained what I'm doing, I still expect to take flak for this.
Joking about PSN going down...almost seems worth it for the outpouring of nerd rage when people lose their precious login bonuses. It's the equivalent of the local store being out of ice cream. It sucks, but we can all have a giggle and move on, because it just doesn't really matter.
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everything back up and running and due to yesterday forced down time there is no planned down time today, in fact the planned one will be reschulde to a later date
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Source??
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the playstation twitter accout was my soure
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Got a link or screenshot of it??
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http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/08/24/playstation-network-update/
here is the PS3 blog with your answer
here is the PS3 blog with your answer
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It really got hacked.....again??? Honestly I think this is just the final straw for me to trade in my PS3 and move on.
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It didn't got hacked, theire servers are being overloaded with a DDoS attack
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No. It was a distributed denial of service attack - something to which any publicly accessible system is vulnerable. The system is overloaded with requests to the point of being unable to execute the valid ones. No data was compromised.
XBL was also attacked, along with Blizzard's Battle.net and, the previous day, Runescape, Eve Online and Guild Wars 2. You're not going to find somewhere to move on to if you want to play games on the internet.
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The case of the attack on PSN evolves and rebounding has discredited the Lizard Squad originally involved (PSN Attack: Flight diverted to John Smedley).
It seems that we are witnessing a real cyber war inter-hackers as the true author of DDOS attacks on the largest online networks of the canvas in the day Sunday, August 24 will be unmasked. This would be a member of the famous group Anonymous, known for being the authors of the famous hack of PSN in April 2011 Nicknamed "FAME" communicating on TwiterFamedGod account, disclosed the IP address of the Lizard group Squad to punish them for having claimed DDOS actions.
More information: http://www.xb-live.com/news/un-memb...preesumee-de-lattaque-psn-68288#ixzz3BPtAsRQY
It seems that we are witnessing a real cyber war inter-hackers as the true author of DDOS attacks on the largest online networks of the canvas in the day Sunday, August 24 will be unmasked. This would be a member of the famous group Anonymous, known for being the authors of the famous hack of PSN in April 2011 Nicknamed "FAME" communicating on TwiterFamedGod account, disclosed the IP address of the Lizard group Squad to punish them for having claimed DDOS actions.
More information: http://www.xb-live.com/news/un-memb...preesumee-de-lattaque-psn-68288#ixzz3BPtAsRQY
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To reiterate, whoever did this did it for the attention - DDoS is not supremely tricky. By talking about them you give them attention. That means they know that attacking PSN again will get them attention - so next time PSN gets DDoSed, they'll do it harder and for longer, affecting gamers and not the company they claim to be attacking. Again.
Not talking about them is the way to do it. Feed their ego and you contribute to the problem.
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Yep - it was a case of YMMV, depending on your physical location. European users were the most affected by the PSN DDoS, though US users got a kick later in the day - probably because Sony pulled the plug ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?"). XBL was running "a limited service". Both groups were fine for stuff outside the PSN/XBL wall though - I was watching Netflix for much of Sunday!
It sounded as if the individuals responsible (or claiming to be) were annoyed than PSN had switched to a paid model for PS4. Apparently it only takes a minor slight with these buffoons to get them to attack a company by inconveniencing its customers.
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Sony postponed the maintenance. @speeeyskells posted a link at post #99
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It's confirmed..............
.... DDOS attackers are this big
.... DDOS attackers are this big
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Its down here as well (uk). Sigh just took my pc to get fixed now I cant even have a game of BF4
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You can still play games offline though - c'mon, get creative with photomode or focus on a tune.
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So, now's your chance
Yeah, I know what you mean though, took me quite a while to fathom the tuning thing.
