tps-report.org » Xbox 360 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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Looks like more RRODs from the Xbox 360 family of consoles, this time its the 360 Elite. It would be nice to see the failure rates for the Xbox 360 but I don’t see Microsoft releasing them anytime soon. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft’s PR machine responds to this accusation.

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