Microsoft and Sony have lived a problematic Christmas because of attacks on online services consoles Xbox and PlayStation, respectively, which prevented users of the games connect.
A group of hackers that calls “Lizard Squad” was responsible for the interruption of services during the festive period.
This Saturday Xbox Live page noted that it had already resumed Microsoft services.
Meanwhile, PlayStation reported today that is already running again and thanked users for their patience.
Online services came under a denial of service or DDoS (for their soglas in English), a technique that floods targets with high traffic making them unusable.
hackers using the name “ Lizard Squad” have attacked earlier game companies. But who are they and what can be your next step?
“BECAUSE WE CAN”
A course hacker Lizard Squad, a young man of 22 years who called Member Two, just simply said that the group had attacked the sites “because we can” do it.
E hinted that the reason was to demonstrate the weakness of the systems Microsoft and Sony .
“ Microsoft is such a huge company. Do not believe they should be able to prevent such an attack? “he told the BBC.
” Is Christmas for children to play with their new consoles or new toys, or is spending time with her families celebrate Christmas? “added
The name .” Lizard Squad “ appears generally used as the signature on sites that the group claims to have successfully attacked. s Most online activity airs on his Twitter account.
In many of your posts mock the target of their attacks or promise future actions.
WHAT HAVE DONE BEFORE?
The Christmas break is the latest in a series of attacks that “Lizard Squad” has claimed. Before they attacked the sites of EA games, Destiny, Xbox Live at the beginning of December.
According to the latest tweets from the group shared a week ago, included threats of attacks Xbox Live precisely during the Christmas period.
“ Microsoft will receive a great Christmas gift from us,” they wrote in the Twitter network.
The network PlayStation Sony also was hacked in August.
The attacks coincided with a bomb threat related to a flight which was traveling executive of Sony .
As a result of the threat made on the web an American Airlines plane was diverted.
NI FIRST OR UNIQUE
Although “Lizard Squad” are making headlines now, other groups of hackers have also targeted sites much profile.
Earlier this month a different branch of Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment, was the victim of a cyber attack that included the theft of a large amount of information from their servers.
The aftermath of the attack soon concentrated on “The Interview” a film about a fictional conspiracy to kill the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
In April last year, four hackers British officials about cyber attacks in 2011 were sentenced to prison.
Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Ackroyd Lulzsec were part of the group that attacked several sites, including Sony Pictures, News International, the CIA and the British agency against organized crime.
The following month, Australian police arrested a 24 year old who proclaimed himself leader of hackers .
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