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Teen pleads guilty of crashing Sony's PlayStation website |
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Here's one for the PlayStation Web's history. In 2008, a teenager was caught using a cheat mod in SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals, and so was consequently kicked out of the tourney. As an act of revenge, he crashed the PlayStation website for a full 11 days by hacking into the site's servers and sending a virus out.
Props to the kid, but unfortunately, Sony caught him and dragged his sorry ass to juvie court. Now, the Latrobe, Pa. high school honors student has pled guilty to four felony charges: unlawful use of a computer, criminal use of a computer, computer trespassing and the distribution of a computer virus.
Actually, this guilty plea is part of his bargain he agreed to, which essentially let him off 11 other cases, some of which were related to a March 2009 cyber attack.
He has yet to be sentenced; it will be coming out later this year. In the meantime, however, Westmoreland County Judge John Driscoll has allowed the boy to return to his parents' home, and also to go back to attending school.
Via [The Pittsburgh Channel]
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i wish more would stand up and react against sony, preferably from a country where hacking is not illegal lol.
the fans need to teach the publishers a lesson. i praise the boy for hacking into their website, but he could have done way more than just sending virus into their servers.
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He didnt do it because they published "a half built game
either way, the game is still good
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I still don't know of any hacks for confrontation, maybe they're talking about socom Combined Assault.
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age has nothing to do with it and crashing a site isn't as hard as you might think it is. it's happened to google just to name another big corp
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Again, I
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And the hackers have a nice solution everybody can use: don't update.
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Hacking doesn't require interent. That can integrated later on when they cracked the console.
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the fact he decided to retaliate shows how stupid he is. they should lock him up; less stupid people to deal with.
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Let him go free! He didn't know that intentionally shutting down Sony's PS website was a bad thing! xD
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he got what he deserved and i hope they send em away.a cyber crime is still a crime, he shouldnt be treated better then anyone else just because of his age
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Kinda stupid for a cheater to "revenge"..
It's like saying a guy robbed a bank but got caught, and then he wants his revenge on the bank... What?
Anyway, another imbecile goes to prison (I hope).
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if he would just get to the servers and do something funny and non-destructive to the site - that would be awesome ;)
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He did something out of anger, he got caught. That simple.
I've gotta hand it to him though, to go that far, impressive. But yoshi314 is right, he should've done something funny and kept going.
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I know that Sony's servers are heavy duty Redhat Linux servers. They are security tight. However:
Him using a mass DDOS attack to bring down a server would force the other servers to work at a higher capacity. Now, Power>Security.
At this point, he brute forced it. Over a connection, he was able to brute force the code that blocked out external connections.
This was done in Command Prompt, not a GUI window, as command prompt would send commands to the server.
Once he was inside the server, destruction was ready. He then sent an upload request to start distributing the "virus" to all the other servers.
In truth, I don't think this was a virus, instead it was probably a massive clusterfuck of data. The servers went ballistic, and fell apart.
In theory, this is unethical; very, very unethical.
However, For someone as young as him to theorize this? That's honorable. He could very well be one of the next greatest security advisers of our time.
In fact, he must have distributed a massive cloud of a botnet. To help the DDOS attack. This requires a lot of people downloading a file, perhaps a multitude of files.
The techniques this kid probably used is amazing. Not saying it was right, but he did it as an art.
Perhaps next time, He'll use some proxies and firewalls.
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i say they give him the worst they can, he was caught CHEATING, the douche clearly has no skill (playing the game) so decided to "get even" (or show his stupidity) by hacking a website and thinking he would get away with it.
i have no sympathy for fools like this.
i dont even have a PS3, but if this happend over Xbox Live, i'd be pretty pissed off about it.
if you cant play fairly, then dont f**king bother, and dont ruin for everyone else.
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