PlayStation clambers back online 48 hours after DDoS attack CRIPPLED network

  • 27 December 2014
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27 Dec 2014 at 14:00, Kelly Fiveash
 
Sony's PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major denial-of-service attack on Christmas Day.
Members of the Lizard Squad gang, which has previously targeted Sony's PSN, claimed responsibility for the assault. Microsoft's Xbox similarly went titsup on Christmas Day.
 
However, Xbox Live was restored shortly after file-sharing tycoon Kim Dotcom seemingly silenced the Lizard Squad by offering them 3,000 free lifetime premium vouchers for his Mega cloud storage service, if they stopped the attacks on the gaming networks.
 
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Not very impressive of them given that Microsoft was back in Xbox business within hours...perhaps Sony should be talking to Microsoft about how to handle these sorts of networks...LOL

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