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yes, apparently sony can't protect itself against some kid's stuff
and no we're just warming up here, the ddos attacks are just like poking the lion to get it angry
A botnet or robot network is a group of computers running a computer application controlled and manipulated only by the owner or the software source. The botnet may refer to a legitimate network of several computers that share program processing amongst them.
Usually though, when people talk about botnets, they are talking about a group of computers infected with the malicious kind of robot software, the bots, which present a security threat to the computer owner. Once the robot software (also known as malicious software or malware) has been successfully installed in a computer, this computer becomes a zombie or a drone, unable to resist the commands of the bot commander.
Gathering this sort of information is referred to as "doxing" or collecting "dox" on targets, and such data is usually collected and distributed so that others can use it "for the lulz"—amusement, legitimate protest, or harassment.
Originally posted by aivlas
reply to post by Mianeye
Was just about to post that link.
It's nothing new they have done it a lot in the past, the funny thing is how angry they get when people do it to them.
U mad bro?
Should you have your personal information revealed after watching a youtube video?
Sony thinks so
We dont
You seriously think Anonymous has good intentions? They just want to # with people. Remember the epilepsy attacks? Whose best interests were at heart then?
Originally posted by aivlas
reply to post by MarkofCain
Do you understand the difference between a volunteer botnet and a botnet consisting of infected machines.
Would you like to point out the typo so it might be fixed?
- We have several primary, several secondary, and several tertiary botnets involved in the attack. The HIVE is a bonus
[18:42] 4There are 79 users in the HIVE
Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time. Sony's official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers.
Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights. We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal.