Lizard squad -why do they do it?

[JonJ678]

I think it's pretty poor that a DDOS attack is effective on a service as extensively funded as MS & Sony's gaming networks.

Perhaps that was the motivation - to highlight to the world that both groups are too cheap to build a server farm properly.

 

[Meridian]

when Gordon replied "but that's different"
There's a life story in there somewhere.

You are of the age (and at the right time) to start singing (out loud or not): "Gordon is a moron, Gordon is a moron"... As we used to with the clueless Gordon I used to work with. Although with him, the game was to sing all the bits leading up that, without ever getting that far.

 

[branddaly]

I think it's pretty poor that a DDOS attack is effective on a service as extensively funded as MS & Sony's gaming networks.

Perhaps that was the motivation - to highlight to the world that both groups are too cheap to build a server farm properly.

You can hire DDOS as a service (booters) for a low number of dollars, these easily hit 50gbps. Hire 10 or so of these and you can hit a server farm with 500 Gbps easily. What server farm do you think is going to be able to handle it when all the bandwidth towards it is saturated?

 

[holymonk]

Consoles suck

 

[RoboCod]

Consoles suck

You're using the wrong kind of rod.

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

Consoles suck

Thanks for your wonderful contribution

 

[daz.rathbone]

You can hire DDOS as a service (boosters) for a low number of dollars, these easily hit 50gbps. Hire 10 or so of these and you can hit a server farm with 500 Gbps easily. What server farm do you think is going to be able to handle it when all the bandwidth towards it is saturated?

This - there is little to no skill involved in what they are doing. Yes there are some edge solutions which can help quickly identify DDoS attacks, but with the lag they would throw onto a service like Live/PSN, not sure they could really implement them.

"The man is so bad, imposing his will upon me.... let me take revenge by imposing my will upon others...." -- idiots all of them. Media are just as annoying though with all the hacking bs - he's not a hacker, he's a very naughty boy.

 

[kedge]

For the 'lulz', apparently, haha.

 

[Diddums]

Say hello to the genius masterminds behind a ruoned xmas for millions.

I personally would love to give them a little taste of what the real world is like when you have nothing to hide behind.


http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/securi...x-and-playstation-gamers-20141230-12foc5.html

 

[Minstadave]

I don't think that DDOSing PSN really ruined anyone's xmas did it?

 

[Diddums]

Ask the millions of kids around the world who upwrapped consoles and games this year.

 

[Minstadave]

Which still worked, just offline.

 

[olivier renault]

I don't think that DDOSing PSN really ruined anyone's xmas did it?

Until it becomes a regular thing. Vandalizing Internet services for the lulz with a DDOS attack isn't particularly hard. Best put these morons down a peg before it catches on.

 

[OhEsEcks]

M2:"Well, that's what happens, I'm afraid. That's what it is like in the security business."

HA! **** all to do with security.

 

[olivier renault]

Which still worked, just offline.

The new consoles are more like Steam than the old brick and mortar stuff. You download your game. If the service is down, no game. And some games don't even work offline (Destiny, I believe).

 

[SkodaMart]

I've just paid for Xbox live for my 9 yr old lad for Christmas.

I was shocked to receive a full refund from Microsoft??

Any explanation for this?

 

[Mynight]

They already have enough money?

Error refund? When did you purchase it? Maybe the ddos affected payment processing as well.

 

[Flubble]

shows up how bad these new online consoles are if a few kids can stop millions of people enjoying their £300+ entertainment systems at any time they like.

 

[OhEsEcks]

shows up how bad these new online consoles are if a few kids can stop millions of people enjoying their £300+ entertainment systems.

Actually it shows how bad these new games are that require an always on connection to play or as a form of DRM. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the consoles. And just about any server farm will go under when bombarded with enough requests.

 

[Diddums]

shows up how bad these new online consoles are if a few kids can stop millions of people enjoying their £300+ entertainment systems.

This is what I thought at first too, but after speaking to various people who know more about this than I do about... well, anything, it would appear that this is in fact extremely hard to counter. One said it'd take roughly ten times the computing power of the attacking botnet to defend against it.

No idea personally.