{"id":1475,"date":"2014-12-28T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2015-01-03T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:39:30","slug":"how-to-prevent-dos-ddos-attacks-sony-and-microsoft-please-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/how-to-prevent-dos-ddos-attacks-sony-and-microsoft-please-pay-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent DoS \/ DDoS Attacks (Sony and Microsoft: Please Pay Attention)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks took down both Sony’s Playstation Network (PSN) and Microsoft’s XBox Live (XBL) on Christmas day – turning the joy of Christmas in to frustration and disappointment for anyone who received a new game for Christmas.\u00a0 As of 12\/26, XBox was largely restored, while Playstation was still at least partially offline, with PS3 access intermittent at best, the Playstation Network website “unavailable due to scheduled maintenance”, and PS4 access completely unavailable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Knowing in advance that threats had been made of a DoS attack on Christmas day, both companies had plenty of time to prepare, yet they either chose to ignore the threats or take insufficient precautions, leaving their staff scrambling, and their customers frustrated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a simple method that could have been used to prevent the whole fiasco.<\/em><\/p>\n

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