PlayStation Network is Down – Denial of Service Attack

Well it’s not for maintenance, and Sony doesn’t know why their network is down for PlayStation gamers in the United States, Canada and Australia. While Sony’s blog did state it was down for maintenance for 60 minutes, it wasn’t said when it started or anything and with Sony’s twitter account saying they are looking into the issue as to why many users can not connect the PlayStation network so it’s clear that Sony did not plan this, or did not plan this very well.

There are rumors going around the the PSN is down due to an internal clock issue. I can’t really see this being an issue though. Maybe because it’s lovely February going into March a few days early, but it’s still February so I would think if that was the reason we’d see this issue a few hours later.

Another rumor is that it’s due to a wide spread virus. Wide spread? I doubt that, I would imagine if it’s because of a virus it would just be concentrated on the PSN servers, and since some users are complaining of trophies going missing I think it does make the virus a little more believable. But for a company such as Sony to get their PSN servers infected seems a little far fetched to me.

Something that I did not find any discussion on however is a denial of service attack. These are becoming more and more widespread with companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter getting hit. I think there is a decent chance that Sony may be experiencing a DDoS attack and that is why you are not able to login.  This is about as crazy as the virus rumor but hackers are getting very crafty now a days so who knows?

As soon as I get more information on this I will be sure to post it.

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