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As Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks hosed not only Playstation Network but also XBox and Battle.net networks, it has emerged that a fake bomb threat grounded US flight 362, while Sony Entertainment Online chief John Smedley was aboard the aircraft. A group (@LizardSquad was tweeting threats and invective in the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    If the sad fuckers at Lizardsquad want to claim they did both the DDOS and the bomb threat let them... add to that their apparent support of IS and its not looking good for them when the feds catch up with them.

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  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Holmes

    Meh.

    But one hacker using the alias Famed (@famedgod) claimed responsibility for the PlayStation Network DDoS and accused LizardSquad of stealing credit.

    ...

    They added Sony should take lesson from Redmond's Xbox architecture and run the gaming and enterprise networks from different data centres.

    Really. From doser to security consultant in 10 seconds? No skills were harmed in this display of lamerosity.

    Time for cool-off period in the chokey, I would think.

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  3. Pet Peeve

    Read their twitter feed. Apparently they think only the "internet police" are interested in calling in bomb threats to planes and pretending to be the terrorist scarecrow of the week.

    Bets on the close of this story:

    1) One of the team is already an informant and turns in the whole bunch.

    2) They can't even spell "opsec" and they've already outed themselves.

    3) One of them flips out when the party van shows up and spills everything.

    4) 1. DDOS Random Shit. 2. Blow own horn about it. 3. ??? 4. Profit.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      One of the posts on their twitter feed says that one of their members already got v&. So, they seem to be well on their way to 1/3.

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  4. John Savard

    Unbelievable

    If these juvenile computer vandals don't realize how seriously this sort of thing is taken after 9/11 in the U.S., it is very doubtful that their l33t haX0r ski11Z are going to keep them from finding out soon enough. Particularly if they're foolish enough to try pulling even more stunts instead of calling it a day and covering their tracks for good.

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  5. Sebastian A

    These morons are operating on the same level

    as the wastes of skin that tag buildings and fences, just in a digital way.

    Hope their temporary infamy keeps them warm when they're sleeping on a cold slab in a cell. I have nothing but contempt for these little maggots.

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