Posts Tagged ‘web’

XBOX live DDOS attacks allow players to kick fellow opponents off the network

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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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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The most ‘dugg’ story ever does not show up in top topics?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Whats going on with Digg.com? There is a sad but one of the most important story’s of our time that was dugg as of 11:55 CST over 12,526 times and yet it does not show up in the most dugg story list? Digg.com is one of my favorite sites and I have never seen a single story with so many diggs behind it. I don’t want to jump to conclusions on this but did Digg.com break suddenly?

For those of you who dont know, digg.com is a very novel concept allowing users to submit a story to digg and other readers “digg” a story, which pushes the popularity of the story forward, which in turn, gives it more exposure. This basically results in the readers deciding what the news headlines are based on votes.

The comments section have been buzzing regarding this oversight. Even still, it is not the top story with over 12000 diggs. The #1 story is Atheist soldier sues government with 3126 diggs? Last time I checked 12526 > 3126.

Something IS rotten in Denmark…

We live in an age where corporate owned conglomerate media outlets shove useless drivel about celebrities and shopping tips down our gullets rather than focusing on relevant news. Digg.com was a fresh breathe of air supposed to prevent this sort of thing. I certainly hope the digg team will respond to this with a “oops, our algorithm was wack”.

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Google enters the virtual ‘space’

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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Google has released Lively, a virtual space which allows google account users to create and customize chat rooms and invite friends over for virtual gatherings. Currently only Firefox and IE are supported browsers. Its a free download but from early reports, the performance is slooow. This seems to be Google’s attempt at Second life (even though it sounds like its more akin to Sony’s Home- if it ever comes out!).

Link to Lively

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