Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony

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Submission + - Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony (ibtimes.com) 1

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:24PM

RedEaredSlider writes: The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon.

The attack is revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3. Sony Computer Entertainment America filed suit against George Hotz, also known as Geohot. Hotz had released a firmware modification that allowed a Sony PlayStation 3 to run other operating systems. Sony had removed that functionality some months before. The suit is still pending.

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