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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PS4 and PS3 users have been warned of a fresh PSN DDOS attack in December </td></tr>
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Last year saw a widespread outage affect both consoles which was implemented by an online group calling themselves Lizard Squad.</div>
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And 2015 could see a similar DDOS attack hit fans after a new group appeared to threaten both Microsoft and Sony with the same outcome for their online gaming infrastructures.</div>
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Called Phantom Squad, the group recently took credit for an outage affecting the <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/xbox-live-down-xbox-one-and-xbox-360.html" target="_blank">Xbox Live</a> network late on Thursday evening.</div>
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Many users were unable to access core services for several hours and will likely be anxious to avoid a repeat of last year's December 25 and 26 outages.</div>
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<section class="text-description">Last Christmas proved to be a misery for millions of gamers after both Sony and Microsoft were targeted by hackers, bringing down the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live services for days.</section><section class="text-description">Hacking group Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the attack, which saw outages caused after servers were overloaded with information.</section><section class="text-description">This type of cyber attack is known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, and one computer expert warned it is far too easily carried out.</section><section class="text-description"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; display: block; height: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;"></iframe><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error" data-twitter-extracted-i1450590363029907965="true" lang="en">
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PSN is next... RT if you don't want this to happen.</div>
— Phantom Squad (@PhantomSqaud) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhantomSqaud/status/677648160014118917">December 18, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The PlayStation Network was hit hard last year by a DDOS attack</td></tr>
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Computer security expert Kevin Curran said tools are readily available to carry out DDoS attacks and as long as they are so accessible, PS4 and Xbox One networks – as well as many other systems - are at risk.<br />
"These attacks for now are hard to stop as free simple-to-use tools make it easy to flood sites with overwhelming amounts of dummy traffic.<br />
"You simply enter the URL of a website, and watch these free programmes generate fake packets so as to overload a site's servers.<br />
"You can watch the average site being brought to its knees in minutes."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Xbox Live appears to have been hit by a fresh DDOS attack on Thursday</td></tr>
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PlayStation Network: PS4 and PS3 fans warned DDOS attack on the way after Xbox Live outage

PS4 and PS3 users have been warned of a fresh PSN DDOS attack in December Last year saw a widespread outage affect both consoles wh...

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