Post: Sony:Anonymous attacks are just an "annoyance"
04-10-2011, 08:41 AM #1
jeffers07
Climbing up the ladder
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According to an interview by You must login or register to view this content. with Sony’s website hosting provider the attacks being conduced by Anonymous are just a “medium scale” attack and are a “annoyance”. So why the downtime? The hosting tech said that the attack was not overwhelming, and that each wave of “attacks” require the hosts to blacklist the offending IP addresses. The only reasons server really was going down is because the process “takes time” and “it’s not difficult”.

The tech furthermore said that the DDoS attacks where underwhelming, and no where near an unstoppable force. They plan to just wait out the attacks until Anonymous becomes “bored”.

Sony also has signed up with Prolexic, a DDoS mitigation service making the site being attacked much harder to take down, and apparently Anonymous has started to do some digging on this company as well.
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Originally posted by another user

KoraX: Prolexic will absorb anything that loic can throw at it,

innocent_whistler: didnt scientolodgy hire prolexic agenst us befor

KoraX: Thats why sony.com won’t go down

KoraX: innocent_whistler: indeed they did!

DrQuestion: I thought it was down

KoraX: naw, The auth site is down, other sites are down,

from what i can see sony.com is up

KoraX: And yes, its me

Ghoster^: yeah they wont go down, if they are under prolexic

Ghoster^: we have to plan for another course of action

Elitestate: sweet, what is it?

Ghoster^: thats why i said we have to plan.. haha

sprog: listen its going to take a lot to down sony, this is what
prolexic is paid for to protect companies against ddos attacks,
this foiled one of our plans before

sonyrecon335: I’ve messaged Journalists – it’s now just a waiting game.

Takai, could I ask that I now go after Prolexic employees,
as they’re standing in the way of our #Opsony’s current objective?

Takai: Have at’er Smile

WhiteRabbit: its pretty much game over….Plolexic can stop attack at 150GBps.

narc0synthesis: hahaha unless we r00t prolexic and **** them up,
make them back off


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04-10-2011, 08:46 AM #2
RayJ_chugs
[move] No Founder [/move]
interesting were the people talking Anonymous?
04-10-2011, 08:47 AM #3
FuzeCraft
Livestreamer!
lol sony are hiring loads of people now
04-10-2011, 08:51 AM #4
jeffers07
Climbing up the ladder
haha there losin load of money they are tryin to act like it's not hurtin them 1 lil bit

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04-10-2011, 07:03 PM #5
Antagonizer88
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Originally posted by jeffers07 View Post
haha there losin load of money they are tryin to act like it's not hurtin them 1 lil bit


It's not as if Sony doesn't have the money to spare. I'd hardly consider it "losing money". That's like saying "You're losing money!" because pennies keep falling out of your pocket. Not really a big deal.

What's funny is these websites are saying pretty much the same thing I've said.. Anonymous is unimpressive. They haven't done anything to make anyone really take notice of their "power".

And with Prolexic, Anonymous really has no other course of action. They're just wanna-be cyber bullies.. and when they can't operate outside the realm of cyber-space, they're screwed.
04-10-2011, 07:11 PM #6
Cody_h4x
Nobody is like me
Sony just ruined themselves :p
04-10-2011, 07:12 PM #7
JakeM
ZOMG HaXz!
Originally posted by Antagonizer88 View Post
It's not as if Sony doesn't have the money to spare. I'd hardly consider it "losing money". That's like saying "You're losing money!" because pennies keep falling out of your pocket. Not really a big deal.

What's funny is these websites are saying pretty much the same thing I've said.. Anonymous is unimpressive. They haven't done anything to make anyone really take notice of their "power".

And with Prolexic, Anonymous really has no other course of action. They're just wanna-be cyber bullies.. and when they can't operate outside the realm of cyber-space, they're screwed.


I would say this is pretty impressive. You must login or register to view this content.
04-10-2011, 07:20 PM #8
Antagonizer88
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Originally posted by JakeM501 View Post
I would say this is pretty impressive. You must login or register to view this content.



The problem with that is, many of these websites and such have security vulnerabilities within them that could be exploited by anyone who knows what to look for. Google recently had a handful discovered and patched.

I think people just give Anonymous too much credit. They might know about various security exploits, and through trial and error might find one or two on certain websites. But then again, I've seen 13yr olds who know about those same things too. And with enough time on your hands, you'll find one.

There is a reason they're only resorting to DDoS attacks against Sony. They have yet to find these same vulnerabilities on Sony's websites and servers.

I don't think we'll be seeing too much more from Anonymous within the Cyber-Realm here, aside from DDoS attacks. They're too cowardice to do anything in the real world where they can't remain anonymous.
04-10-2011, 07:29 PM #9
JakeM
ZOMG HaXz!
Originally posted by Antagonizer88 View Post
The problem with that is, many of these websites and such have security vulnerabilities within them that could be exploited by anyone who knows what to look for. Google recently had a handful discovered and patched.

I think people just give Anonymous too much credit. They might know about various security exploits, and through trial and error might find one or two on certain websites. But then again, I've seen 13yr olds who know about those same things too. And with enough time on your hands, you'll find one.

There is a reason they're only resorting to DDoS attacks against Sony. They have yet to find these same vulnerabilities on Sony's websites and servers.

I don't think we'll be seeing too much more from Anonymous within the Cyber-Realm here, aside from DDoS attacks. They're too cowardice to do anything in the real world where they can't remain anonymous.


There pretty smart. They have a bit more experience then most. I think there is a reason why they are only doing that, maybe while they are trying to find a glitch or whatever.

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