25 August 2014

Post 2, CIS 608


Sony PlayStation network back online after cyber-attack











Denial of service (DOS) attack shuts down the Sony's PlayStation for many hours. Attackers used a distributed DOS (DDOS) method to overload the network. This was a similar type of attack that had happened in 2011 where Sony's 52 millions of PlayStation were shut down for many hours.

Source url: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28924210

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