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Heads Up : Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

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Sony's PlayStation hit by hack attack

 

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."

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viridis
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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
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@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 grin

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viridis
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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.
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That's perfect, thanks viridis slight_smile

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