Posted on 12/16/2015 7:42:09 PM PST by Utilizer
LizardSquad copycats are trying to ruin Christmas for gamers
Last year, the LizardSquad hacking group managed to ink its name into the history of Internet after taking down the Xbox Live and PlayStation networks during Christmas.
With this year's holiday just around the corner, a new group, unoriginally named Phantom Squad, is now threatening to carry out similar attacks as well.
If we believe their Twitter timeline, the hackers seem to have launched a DDoS attack against Reddit yesterday, even if nobody noticed its effects. Of course, a behemoth like Reddit is hard to take down in its entirety, but this was enough to attract people's attention to their cause.
During the past days, Phantom Squad has also been claiming it carried out DDoS attacks against the Steam network and servers for games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, Grand Theft Auto 5, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The group has not provided any kind of proof for their attacks, and a quick Twitter search does not reveal any serious downtime in those services.
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Fallout 4 ping.
Nobody needs to attack XBox live to keep it from working. For a month we have been trying to find where you enter your user name and password to sign in.
Most unnecessarily complicated sign in processes I’ve ever seem. Maybe these guys that hack into it will leave it signed in so we can use what we paid for.
Oh by all means hack the crap out of all the Obama worshipping’ millenial liberals so they can’t play on Christmas Day. It would make my day....Net Neutrality at work...: )
Question: is going for legs an effective strategy for taking out a Mirelurk swarm?
*laugh* Have you tried asking your kid’s friends?
Seriously, there are many kids out there that know things about those machines we have never heard of.
Offer a free pizza and soda of their choice, and watch how many jump at the chance to both help you out and write it down for you. *grin*
You might be surprised. :)
I’m not sure if announcing a hack ahead of time is such a good idea. All that will do is warn Microsoft and Sony to diligently look at their Xbox One and PlayStation 3/4 software code and start applying patches by this weekend (and add any additional patches as needed) to stop such attacks.
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