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Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by thezilch » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

882542F3884314B wrote: post #21

valarauca1 wrote: post #3

So Clarification that BBC isn't offering. @Famedgod is the psn botnet ddoser @Lizardsquad tried to take credit for attacks. @Famedgod tried to dox them @Lizardsquad calls in bomb threat (in attempt to validity their claim) Anonymous doxxes @lizardsquad Twitter user doxxes @famedgod Yup. Also Lizardsquad is currently claiming its a member of ISIS. And has taken down a few papal web pages since the attack posting with…

Another recap of yesterday's events from Money-not_you_again: http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megat... " A PROPER RECAP OF EVENTS SO FAR (sorry for the caps, but just so people see and we don't have a thousand different news reports of random shit): So a guy by the name of FamedGod ( https://twitter.com/FamedGod ) DDOS's PSN in the name of proving that Sony has shite security still. Then a grou…

  > Sidenote: So despite media reports to the contrary, Blizzard and Riot appear unaffected.

Battle.net was hit all weekend; the effects were obvious for anyone trying to authenticate. It was not a hardcore DDoS; it just took a long line to get auth'd, at which point other Blizzard services seemed mostly OK -- some games were still affected, regardless of the auth services.

It seemed to get better by Sunday, where I can only recall one or two times having timeouts.

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by pyre » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC

Natsu wrote: post #25

pyre wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'doxing' is a term that has probably been around for at least 4-5 years. But yea. The point is that you are releasing 'documents' ('dox' being a slur on 'docs') about someone that removes that anonymity.

It's been in mainstream news for about that long, perhaps. The term itself is considerably older.

I did say "at least." :P

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by yincrash » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

thezilch wrote: post #31

882542F3884314B wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another recap of yesterday's events from Money-not_you_again: http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megat... " A PROPER RECAP OF EVENTS SO FAR (sorry for the caps, but just so people see and we don't have a thousand different news reports of random shit): So a guy by the name of FamedGod ( https://twitter.com/FamedGod ) DDOS's PSN in the name of proving that Sony has shite security still. Then a grou…

> Sidenote: So despite media reports to the contrary, Blizzard and Riot appear unaffected. Battle.net was hit all weekend; the effects were obvious for anyone trying to authenticate. It was not a hardcore DDoS; it just took a long line to get auth'd, at which point other Blizzard services seemed mostly OK -- some games were still affected, regardless of the auth services. It seemed to get better by Sunday, where I ca…

Still a DDoS, just one of the auth servers and not the game/chat servers.

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by libraryatnight » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 9:30 PM UTC

gnufied wrote: post #12

From /u/legauge on reddit - http://imgur.com/a/eVR6h . The intensity of attack has gone down a bit but it was pretty cool to see this in realtime from - http://map.ipviking.com/

Wow, that ipviking site is somewhat entrancing to watch.

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by selimthegrim » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 11:07 PM UTC

coolnow wrote: post #26

valarauca1 wrote: post #3

So Clarification that BBC isn't offering. @Famedgod is the psn botnet ddoser @Lizardsquad tried to take credit for attacks. @Famedgod tried to dox them @Lizardsquad calls in bomb threat (in attempt to validity their claim) Anonymous doxxes @lizardsquad Twitter user doxxes @famedgod Yup. Also Lizardsquad is currently claiming its a member of ISIS. And has taken down a few papal web pages since the attack posting with…

I find it curious that in one tweet, they state something along the lines of "you cannot find me, i am god". Attributing yourself to be or have any qualities of a god is a big no-no in Islam. Some sects will go as far as to proclaiming new prophets and whatnot, but calling yourself god is out of the question. These kids are definitely not ISIS, Muslim nor l33t.

Minister Wallace Fard would like a word.

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by Natsu » Tue, Aug 26, 2014, 1:14 AM UTC

pyre wrote: post #32

Natsu wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been in mainstream news for about that long, perhaps. The term itself is considerably older.

I did say "at least." :P

Fair enough, but it goes back to at least the 90s from what I can remember. Most likely, it's even older.

Re: Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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Post by coolnow » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:39 AM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #35

coolnow wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it curious that in one tweet, they state something along the lines of "you cannot find me, i am god". Attributing yourself to be or have any qualities of a god is a big no-no in Islam. Some sects will go as far as to proclaiming new prophets and whatnot, but calling yourself god is out of the question. These kids are definitely not ISIS, Muslim nor l33t.

Minister Wallace Fard would like a word.

Why? Nation of Islam may have the word "Islam" in it, but they're definitely not Muslim.