Hackers Explain Why They Took Down XBL And PSN, XBL Was Easier To Hack

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nanarchy said:

Shinobi-san said:
You guys do realize that ddos is not only achieved through flooding a service with requests right? -_-

Distributed Denial of Service attack IS all about hitting the network or servers from many many different clients to prevent normal traffic from being processed. This is achieved by either flooding the network pipes, causing the servers to process more work than they can handle or exploiting flawed code to cause the servers to crash continually, but regardless it does involve a lot of clients and flooding of the service. If you aren't doing this from a large botnet then it is just a DoS attack not a DDoS.  

What it appears they did at least with Xbox Live was server stress with excessive requests. had it been more involved than that Live would have been down for a lot more than just a few hours. (it was not down for days, shouldn't mods limit themselves to being a little more factual?)

Yah I think people do not realize that. Maybe this moderator was talking about PSN and not both, I believe PSN has been effectively down for 3 days, but yah he is wrong to say several days for Live at least.

Xbox Live was not down for day (or forever lol) but just few hours and then the limited status is just some slowness here and there but I can play 100% of my games and use 100% of my online services without any problem. So to me, Microsoft mitigated this DDOS attack very well.

Side note: I really hope they found those morons and put them in jail for good.