- December 27, 2014
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A Christmas troubled about Microsoft and Sony for attacks on their consoles online services Xbox Live and PlayStation, respectively, which prevented users connect games.
A group of hackers calling itself “Lizard Squad” was responsible for the disruption of services during the festive period.
This Saturday Xbox Live page suggested that Microsoft services already resumed.
Meanwhile, PlayStation noted on Twitter that some services were operational again and thanked users for their patience.
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Online services came under a denial of service or DDoS (for their soglas in English), a technique that floods objectives with high traffic making them unusable.
The hackers who use the name of Lizard Squad have attacked video game companies before.
But who are they and what can be your next step?
“Because we can”
An alleged hacker Lizard Squad, a young man of 22 years who called Member Two, just simply say that the group had attacked the sites “because we can” do it.
E hinted that the reason was to demonstrate the weakness of Microsoft and Sony systems.
“Microsoft is such a huge company. Do not believe you 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 their families and celebrate Christmas? “he said.
The name appears Lizard Squad generally used as the signature on sites that the group claims to have successfully attacked.
Most of the Lizard Squad online activity outside the hacking, airs on his Twitter account.
In many of your posts mock the target of their attacks or promise future actions.
What did the group before?
The Christmas break is the latest in a series of attacks that claimed Lizard Squad.
Before had attacked the sites of EA games, Destiny, Xbox Live at the beginning of December.
According to the latest tweets from the group, shared ago one week, included threats of attacks on Xbox Live just over the Christmas period.
“Microsoft will receive a great Christmas present from us,” they wrote in the Twitter network.
The network Sony PlayStation also was hacked in August.
The attacks coincided with a bomb threat related to a flight which was traveling a Sony executive.
As a result of the threat made internet an American Airlines plane was diverted.
Neither first nor only
Although Lizard Squad are now making headlines, other groups of hackers have also targeted sites much profile.
Earlier this month a branch different from 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
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In April Last year, four British hackers responsible for about cyber attacks in 2011 were sentenced to prison.
Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Ackroyd were part of Lulzsec 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 as the leader of the group of hackers.
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