[outages] Surprised No Press Here - Playstation Down

[Wil Schultz]

On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:16 PM, RL Vaughn wrote:

> On 4/21/11 5:04 PM, Scott, Robert D. wrote:
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383924,00.asp
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>> Sony PlayStation Network Down for a 'Day or Two'
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>> Robert D. Scott           Robert at ufl.edu
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/21/psn_outage_ddos_rumours/
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> PSN gaming network outage sparks DDoS rumours
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> Posted in Enterprise Security, 21st April 2011 08:57 GMT
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> Outage of the PlayStation network today sparked unconfirmed rumours that
> the downtime may be down to a denial of service attack.
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> Perhaps the PSN network is just having a bit of a nap, but global
> problems in logging into the online gaming network have given rise to
> speculation that it is due either to a DDoS or hacking from a group
> trying to get Sony to abandon its court fight against PS3 modders.
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I was looking at this earlier and came to the conclusion that it was self inflicted. I've got no idea what the actual issue is, but the usual suspects didn't appear to be involved.


-wil