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Lizard squad a hacking group made DDOS attack over Sony PlayStation network.

 Posted By: Ljsingh / Aug 25, 2014 / 

[caption id="attachment_1102" align="aligncenter" width="420"]Sony PS network getting shutdown Sony PS network getting shutdown[/caption] According to a report submitted by Shack News, an unknown hacking group Lizard squad made DDOS attack PSN network, Blizzard's battle.net and Riot League of legends. The news was confirmed by Sony's President John Smedley on twitter.

Lizard group strikes gaming networks.

The prior target of the Lizard squad was Sony's PlayStation network. Sony's president tweeted that he is flying for San Deigo and his phone would get switch off. In return the Lizard squad replied they are afraid that J_Smedley is flight is just about to get grounded. John tweeted again and confirmed the news by tweeting that they are being hit by a large-scale DDOS attack. All the online games are impacted by that. The attack seems to be a political one and hackers have claimed that their efforts are supported by ISIS.

Earlier attacks made on Sony

3 years back Sony's PS network was attacked and millions of credit card details were compromised. Just also about last month ago Sony reached about 15 million settlements for those who got suffered.

What is DDOS attack?

DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of service attack. When a connection is established between user and client, there is a 3way handshake between computer and server. The computer sends syn pack and in respond to that the Server responds by sending syn plus ack package. Now in case of DOS attack the attacker sends bulk of syn pack. During this process the server don't gets time to respond. In case of DDOS attack, there are n numbers of users which perform DOS attack from different places. At the end server gets busy and gets down.

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