The annoying part about this is seeing the dipshit figurehead of that group doing stunts like "1000 RTs and I'll turn Xbox Live back on," which of course a) He doesn't/can't do and b) ends up getting himself tending, which was all he was trying to do. Then I see people begging that Anonymous News account to "stop them," which again Anonymous isn't capable of doing, but even if they could they just say "white people problems, go be with your family." Twitter is a fucking cancer, if someone really wants to help screw with these pseudo-hackers, take Twitter offline so they are no longer able to speak.
Frankly, there is no stopping these attacks. These services are going to stay offline (or at least spotty) until the people behind it get tired of messing with it. Only way to change that is to change the way both Xbox Live and PSN operate at a base level. That ain't happening.
Is there any reason problems with PSN would affect remote play? My remote play connection has been a bit dodgy today even when right next to the PS4, and I'm fairly sure I have the appropriate internet speed to handle it.
@euandewar: Depends on how you're connecting if you're connecting directly to the PS4 then no you should be fine. If you're connecting through wi-fi then I'd say there might be a chance that would affect it.
Well this kind of sucks, I bought myself a PS4 for christmas and was trying to log in to psn and set my stuff up.....
Guess I know why it's not working now.
anyway Hope you duders are all having a Good Christmas despite the whole ddos thing, and hope these lizard kids find somthing better to do with their hollidays.
I don't want to make controversial statements but these guys seem like the worst.
What is the message here? What are they trying to prove or do? Prove they are dicks? Mission accomplished .no go back to call people names on the Internet
So ummmm... I've been playing injustice online when fiending lately and now I'm a bit nuts cause of them that lizards! I need to play some matches... Cause like yuuuuuuup
I would guess it is partly both services doing tests to ensure full network stability and also system integrity checks to make sure it was just a DDOS attack and nothing else went on.
I'm a network dude at a Fortune 500 company. We get DDoSed all the time, primarily from China and Eastern Europe and we use a third party DDoS mitigation service. I make one phone call, identify myself, and give them the code word that corresponds to one of our sites around the world. 10 minutes later the attack has been mitigated. I know DDoS mitigation service is expensive, but shit, people are paying money for these services and Microsoft and Sony should invest the money to protect them. Maybe they do have a mitigation plan and maybe there are extraordinary circumstances that allow Lizard Squad to bypass their mitigation efforts but given the frequency and success of these attacks it doesn't seem like they have any kind of protection in place.
PSN is down here in Canada. Bought the Jack Box at a family members on their ps3 a couple days ago and we couldn't play it tonight. Had to buy it for the third time on steam to get it to work.
24 hours now for me and i still can't do anything network related on my PS4, the PSN online status page still says its down. XBL status page shows up and running with some limited function but core services working.
PSN was working for me for a while. But now it doesn't connect or it says I need to be a ps+ member but the. Tells me it's not available in my country, but I'm in the United States. Aaaaand now psn says it's undergoing maintainence. this isn't helping my sobriety...
Yeah, fuck that. Way to send the message that you'll get rewarded if you do this kind of stuff. This stops nothing if some of the same people reorganize under another group name. Which they will, eventually.
Oddly enough I had no problems with XBL at all yesterday. Not that I was trying all day or anything, but got on in the evening with no issues.
I don't want to make controversial statements but these guys seem like the worst.
What is the message here? What are they trying to prove or do? Prove they are dicks? Mission accomplished .no go back to call people names on the Internet
Well, one of the figurehead guys has posted stuff like "Nintendo for life" and "XBL and PSN down. Go buy a Nintendo system," although I don't know if he's legit mad about the other consoles or if he's just saying shit to stir it up more.
Would have liked to have played Fibbage with my family, but we had a good Christmas regardless. Still, this would suck for anyone who got a new system for Christmas.
Psn is still up in the netherlands, been downloading stuff since yesterday, seems to be going ok even though its a bit slow atm...whats all this about hack attacks?
PSN still not working for me on PS4. It was fine on PS3. I am still able to use Netflix on PS4 though...Thank goodness that those apps aren't attached to PSN and just require a network connection.
@spraynardtatum: same here, I'm so thankful that those apps can't still operate. I was logged in a few minutes ago, but What's New, Throphies and profile wouldn't load. Tired to log out and log in again and now I cannot log in at all. I really wish I knew what point the hackers are trying to make.
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