Xbox, PlayStation networks under DOS attack on Christmas Day

American Thinker ^ | 12/26/2014 | Rick Moran

[Cowboy Bob]

Should we go bomb North Korea?

[Old Sarge]

Well, on the upside, maybe the gamers will do something like, oh I don’t know - READ?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Good work by Lizard Squad. Maybe we can pay them to keep it up all year?

[exnavy]

Now, that is funny.

[Paradox]

“Anonymous” was supposedly going after the Lizard Squad, already posted some pics of them... 12-13 year old punks.

[LadyBuck]

Did they put up an error message saying “go read a book, do something nice to help your family, or clean your room?”

THAT would have been appreciated.

[Ransomed]

It would be interesting to know what the % of folks doing this multi player game stuff also regularly read.

Freegards

[Old Sarge]

I can attest to my daughter, “Brainiac”, who is an avid gamer.

But don’t you DARE stand between her an a bookstore. It’s about as safe as standing between Chuck Schumer and a mike.

[Ransomed]

Yeah, I would think there would be a lot of overlapping just from sci-fi/fantasy fans. I wonder how it compares to the general population of non-video gamers.

Freegards

[relictele]

I’m guessing Sony and Microsft won’t be calling attention to their inability to invest sufficiently in anti-hack/anti-DDOS precautions in their respective annual reports to investors.

[Puppage]

I’ll drive!

[MeganC]

Frankly, I support this; It’s Christmas Day you silly geeks! Put down the stupid controller and go spend some time with your families!!!!!

[Paradox]

Yep, although its very tough defending against a DDOS attack.

[CodeToad]

That, a DOS, or simply so many people tried to get online at once, which looks just like a DOS attack?

[BreezyDog]

This multi-player gamer reads Free Republic...

[OneWingedShark]

I’m guessing Sony and Microsft won’t be calling attention to their inability to invest sufficiently in anti-hack/anti-DDOS precautions in their respective annual reports to investors.

It's theoretically impossible to have an anti-DDoS on an open network: this is because it has to be receptive to new, previously unknown senders/clients.

You could limit things by having a closed network, with an open-network essentially being a gateway to the closed network, but the open portion would still be vulnerable.

In a purely closed network you could achieve anti-DDoS by (1) having all nodes w/ a [known] static address, (2) rejecting all traffic from an unknown address, and (3) when a node starts saturating the network, exclude it for a length of time.

[SomeCallMeTim]

They seem to be hitting Facebooj today.

[OneWingedShark]

Yep, although its very tough defending against a DDOS attack.

Theoretically impossible, with the requirements you need for something like PSN or MSLive.

[chae]

I read voraciously. Most of my gamer friends read alot too.