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PS4 - Possible DDOS in future
iDirtyPenguin
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Just a heads up, Lizard Squad have announced that they have something in store for Microsoft & Sony.
I would remove your card details from PSN account. It might be nothing, but better being safe than sorry.
I would remove your card details from PSN account. It might be nothing, but better being safe than sorry.
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You realise they took psn offline last night/this morning dont you!
Yup. From several sources this won't be the last. It's just the fact they've specifically said "they have something in store" which indicates it's not something they've done normally i.e. the DDOS attacks. I'm going to assume they'll go a step further.
So just thought I'd create a thread for the folk who aren't following this sort of stuff. ( I follow Lizard, Anon and others, just to see whats happening throughout the online scene and for the record I hate what they do >:( )
The lot of em should be tracked down & burnt alive on national TV! 👍 ... IF this effected anyone else but gamers they would've been! 👎
But them causing things to go offline is still really annoying.
Idea for LS - take on STEAM, then you will have even more wanting to kill you
They already had a plane diverted with a sony head honcho on it because of a bomb scare and the only thing that has affected them was they had to make a new twitter account, they also say half of the attacks are paid for by 3rd parties.
I had a strange issue on Sunday night where I couldn't connect to PSN, even though all other devices in the home were fine and I'd been downloading stuff to the PS4 all day.
I use a wired connection.
I reset the PS4 and router several times, but with no luck. So, I tried to do a connection test, but it was having none of it, throwing up a DNS error.
So, I went through the network set-up again, but it couldn't find an IP address. Tried about 5 times and got the same result.
By this time I've exhausted my (limited) networking knowledge, so in an act of desperation before I start tugging on the dozens of wires behind my TV I switched to wireless.
It started working immediately.
Back to wired and nothing. Back to wireless and it's fine. So, I stick with wireless.
Next day I switch back to wired to see if I need to start switching cables or (shudder) phone BT to find everything's back working as it should be and has been ever since.
Anyway, to cut a long, dull and technically vague story short, if you're wired try switching to wireless temporarily. It might work for you.
I wouldn't swear it is someone else's fault but I've done everything I can think of here that's for sure.
No issues with it here.
Did anyone really consider the people who hacked the PSN good hackers? Or are you referring to the people who cracked the PS3 hardware? As I remember it a lot of people were excited at the prospect of what homebrewers could do with the system once it was cracked and rightly so as homebrew made the Xbox 1 and I believe the PS2 an awesome machine capable of a lot more than was originally intended. Sadly little materialised as regular firmware updates made having a modded console far more difficult than it had been in the past.
I would guess the malicious hackers that gained access to the PSN are the people most likely to be able to expose these guys currently effecting the PSN but would they really care.
For me its a BT problems by the look of things, many people seem effected so its just as annoying cos BT don't seem to think owt is up.