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....wonder how many kids got up early this morning to open their presents to find an XBOX or PS3/4 and jittery from excitement hooked the things up, only to find that they couldn't get online? Takes some real jackwagons to DDos both the Sony Playstation network as well as the Microsoft network on Christmas Day don't ya think! A handful of kids that go by the online moniker "The LizardSquad" were responsible it seems.
There has been a battle between the "good" hackers and the bad guys going on for two days now. Online some are saying it was the dastardly North Koreans going after them for allowing the streaming of "The Interview", but that's not the case. Couple of kids in the UK, Canada, and the good old USA are behind the outages on both networks. Of course, you would think that the IT guys at both companies would know how to filter out the bad requests going to the servers well before they were overwhelmed but I guess not!
On the bright side I would imagine the kids got to spend some quality time with their Families while they were waiting for the "Unable to Connect" message to change to something else.
Isn't there some kind of LAW against this kind of stuff?
If anyone knows who to call I have some information I gathered this afternoon like names, addresses, home and cell numbers, IP addresses, where they are either employed or go to school, whose name their internet accounts are in, etc I certainly would like to share to help take those that ruined many a kids Christmas down for the count. Heck, one of them was arrested on December 7th...got out...and was back up to the same thing that got him arrested in the first place!!
Jackwagons!!
There has been a battle between the "good" hackers and the bad guys going on for two days now. Online some are saying it was the dastardly North Koreans going after them for allowing the streaming of "The Interview", but that's not the case. Couple of kids in the UK, Canada, and the good old USA are behind the outages on both networks. Of course, you would think that the IT guys at both companies would know how to filter out the bad requests going to the servers well before they were overwhelmed but I guess not!
On the bright side I would imagine the kids got to spend some quality time with their Families while they were waiting for the "Unable to Connect" message to change to something else.
Isn't there some kind of LAW against this kind of stuff?
If anyone knows who to call I have some information I gathered this afternoon like names, addresses, home and cell numbers, IP addresses, where they are either employed or go to school, whose name their internet accounts are in, etc I certainly would like to share to help take those that ruined many a kids Christmas down for the count. Heck, one of them was arrested on December 7th...got out...and was back up to the same thing that got him arrested in the first place!!
Jackwagons!!
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