An investigation conducted by the Inspector General shows that the FCC never suffered from a DDoS attack last year, as it claimed, when the agency began accepting public comments about its plans to neuter net neutrality. Instead, the system was overwhelmed by those wishing to voice their opinions. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai (PDF) blamed the issue on […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a press release (PDF) claiming that it’s website was hit with a DDoS attack at the exact same time that comments started flooding in due to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment about net neutrality on Sunday night. The new Chair of the FCC Ajit Pai is not a supporter of Title […]
A Chinese electronics manufacturer admitted that its products inadvertently contributed to last week’s massive cyberattack that knocked popular Web services offline. On Friday, a number of major sites—Twitter, Etsy, GitHub, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopify—experienced outages as the result of a DDoS attack on DNS provider Dyn. One big part of the problem: the Mirai botnet, which […]
Sony announced Thursday that it will extend subscriptions for premium users of its PlayStation Network and offer discounts on purchases in an effort to placate its users after a cyberattack took down the company’s networks on Christmas Day. On Dec. 25, users of the PlayStation console were unable to connect to the network due […]
The PlayStation Network servers are currently out of commission for the second time in as many days. Sony posted a notice to its official Twitter account that its engineers are “aware of connectivity issues” and “are working to resolve” them. PSN suffered an outage for the majority of Sunday thanks to an apparent DDoS attack […]
Both the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) are slowly recovering from a denial of service attack that flooded their server connections, kicking many gamers offline. PlayStation Network was unavailable Sunday morning due to a denial-of-service, commonly referred to as DDoS, attack. The group claiming responsibility, Lizard Squad, reportedly . Attacks on the PlayStation Network and Sony […]
A special “Battlefield Appreciation” event for Battlefield 4 will be hosted November 28 through December 5, DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson announced in a press release to the media. During that timeframe, all players that complete an online multiplayer match will receive double the amount of XP. Troedsson expressed his displeasure in the game’s […]
This past weekend was a rough one for Battlefield 4, with DDoS attacks hitting the PC game and myriad crashes infesting the newly-launched PS4 version. Over the past few days, it has been nigh-impossible to connect to servers in the PC iteration of Battlefield 4 thanks to an unnamed group attacking EA’s Origin servers. Initially […]
ANew backdoor intrusion attempts to turn Macs into bots for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and can also open them to other exploits, says security firm ESET. The malware is operated through IRC networks, and connects to one of a list of IRC servers so it can interpret commands received in a chat channel. Beyond turning […]
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