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Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:22:03 GMT

Source : BBC News.

Excerpt from the Link "A hacker group has claimed responsibility for attacking Sony's online PlayStation store, which is down on Monday."

Re: Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

viridis — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:08:44 GMT

Reporters, Please learn the difference between hacking and ddos attacks.

Always playstation attacks in the news, yet last week xbox live and steam were taken offline by lizard turds.

I've still yet to see lizard squad HACK something

Re: Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

Toby — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:23:39 GMT

@viridis wrote:
Reporters, Please learn the difference between hacking and ddos attacks.

Can you please give a primary school description of the difference @viridis ?

I don't really know how it works

Re: Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

viridis — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:34:20 GMT

Hacking would mean bypassing security measures to gain control of a site/network/server

Ddos is sending so much crap down the network stream,(thousands of login attempts per second etc) the security measures kick in and deny service from the network

I.e ddos attacks do nothing more than annoy, information is safe, no accountso compromised, it all just goes offline until the servers are reset.

Re: Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

Toby — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:36:38 GMT

That's perfect, thanks viridis