tps-report.org » PS3 http://tps-report.org technology . politics . society Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:11:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 XBOX live DDOS attacks allow players to kick fellow opponents off the network http://tps-report.org/2009/02/27/xbox-live-ddos-attacks-allow-players-to-kick-fellow-opponents-off-the-network/ http://tps-report.org/2009/02/27/xbox-live-ddos-attacks-allow-players-to-kick-fellow-opponents-off-the-network/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:14:32 +0000 Gyorak http://tps-report.org/?p=543 xbox_live_ddos

From Arstechnica:

In the latest series of unfortunate events for the Microsoft corporation, the Xbox live network is suffering from malicious attacks from hackers that allow them to flood fellow opponents connections with a Denial of service attack that kicks the victim off of the Live network.

To exacerbate the situation, the hackers that discovered this exploit are selling their services to fellow X-bots for $20 dollars an attack. From the article:

Since Xbox Live games connect to the Internet like everything else, using an IP address, it’s possible for hackers to discover your address using underground packet-sniffing software, then flood the Xbox port with incoming data to boot you off. Other offenders are reportedly asking for an IP address by sneaky means before opening the denial-of-service floodgates.

Wow, am I glad I don’t have to pay $8 bucks a month for my PS3 online playing time…

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Hear ye, hear ye! The long awaited Fallout 3 will be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in the United States this October 28th. Thats right, mark your calendars folks.

Press release here!

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Spots 1-5 are:

  1. IBM Roadrunner (1.026 petaflop/s) at U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory
  2. IBM BlueGene/L system (478.2 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  3. IBM BlueGene/P (450.3 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory
  4. Sun SunBlade x6420 “Ranger” system (326 teraflop/s) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas – Austin
  5. Cray XT4 “Jaguar” (205 teraflop/s) at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Full article

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