![]() ![]() ![]() Companies like Microsoft and Sony then have to find ways to weed out the bad “phone calls,” often by paying a third-party company to accept all the rerouted requests, filter them and route only the good ones back to the source.ĭenial of service attacks are, like a rock thrown through a window, unsophisticated but effective at causing a mess. ![]() To “weaponize” this sort of attack, Camp said, hackers can pay to rent computers that have been infected with malware and point them at the same target. The idea is, what if we could trick other computers into all robot-calling your phone? Now you really can’t take a phone call.” “When they’re flooding your phone, you can’t get other phone calls. “At the most basic level, it’d be like someone calling your phone 2,800 times and you’re going, ‘Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone,'” Camp said. I asked cybersecurity researcher Cameron Camp to explain back in August when an anonymous online hacking group called Lizard Squad first targeted PlayStation: It might help to understand what a “denial of service” attack is. Unlike the recent more sophisticated hack attack at Sony Pictures, the goal appears to be to cause mayhem and headaches for Microsoft and Sony rather than to steal private data or achieve a political goal.Īt the time of this writing, Xbox Live is back “ up and running” while the PlayStation Network is still “ offline.” But what causes this sort of downtime, and why? They also affect anyone trying to register a new account, buy games or use media apps to stream movies and music from the Web. These “denial of service” attacks are not only a problem for people who want to play a multiplayer game online. If you unwrapped a new Xbox or PlayStation game console on Christmas, you probably know by now that Microsoft’s and Sony’s respective online networks have been struggling since yesterday morning. ![]()
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