Lizard Squad asshats at it again. XBL down

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Sentient_Nebula said:

MoHasanie said:
hmm, so is this gonna happen every few weeks now? Sony and MS need to figure out a way to protect themselves from these types of attacks.

DDoS attacks are virtually impossible to defend against, and that's what makes them such a common tactic.

The only way to stop a DDoS is to block the IP address where the attack is coming from. But even this isn't perfect, since many DDoS attacks are like a "siege" with traffic coming from dozens, if not hundreds of IPs.

we have defenses against them.  Just non practical enough yet for very larg companies.