PSN suffering widespread issues as a result of DDOS attack

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AZWification on 24 August 2014

Blood_Tears said:
https://twitter.com/LizardSquad

Lizard Squad@LizardSquad · 11m

.@AmericanAir We have been receiving reports that @j_smedley's plane #362 from DFW to SAN has explosives on-board, please look into this.

I have no words for this...

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celador on 24 August 2014

Blood_Tears said:
https://twitter.com/LizardSquad

Lizard Squad@LizardSquad · 11m

.@AmericanAir We have been receiving reports that @j_smedley's plane #362 from DFW to SAN has explosives on-board, please look into this.

I have no words for this...

They will not be around much longer now. I would imagine. You cannot do that anymore even as a joke

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eFKac on 24 August 2014

Brilliant

So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

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brendude13 on 24 August 2014

celador said:

This might be his best one yet.

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ExplodingBlock on 24 August 2014

Probably just Nintendo/XB fanboys that are sore losers :P

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TheKoreanGuy on 24 August 2014

I can get online on my Vita. Not sure about ps3 and ps4.

You can't pay enough money to prevent shit like this.

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Diogo1034 on 24 August 2014

Well i've been online for an hour now and i just synced some trophies, i'm going to check if you can play online now

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2008ProchargedGT on 24 August 2014

osed125 said:

Teeqoz said:

MoHasanie said:
Could the hackers steal data again?

It's a DDoS attack. It's not hacking per se, it's just overloading the PSN servers so they crash. I think

That's a what's called a buffer overflow.

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhA9PAfkJ10

No hes right a DDos attack is one in which many machines are used to overwhelm the intended device to cause it to crash.a buffer overflow is an attack where you fill up a systems memory so the buffer gets overflow and the portion that dosent fit in the memory (usually designed to be executed) gets executed. 9years Cyber Security in the Marine Corps for reference.

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