Domo Arigato Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Sony Online Entertainment’s former CEO just declared war on the Lizard Squad hackers The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Microsoft Xbox Live Christmas service outage last year left many people red faced and angry, but few have taken it to the level of Daybreak, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, CEO John Smedley. Late last night Smedley spewed a torrent of hate against 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter mere moments after the youth, who describes himself online as an “untouchable hacker God,” was convicted of 50,700 computer crimes charges. The offences related to Kivimaki’s participation in the Lizard Squad hacking gang's "operations" and will see him serve a two-year suspended prison sentence. Kivimaki is believed to have taken part in a high profile cyber attack on PSN and Xbox live in December 2014. The incident saw the Lizard Squad target the gaming networks with a special type of attack, known as distributed denial of service (DDoS). DDoS attacks don’t actually hack services, or steal data from their victims, but are instead designed to knock online services offline. They work by overloading the back end servers running the services with requests — the equivalent of spamming them to death. The December incident left thousands of people unable to play Xbox and PlayStation games on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Smedley’s vendetta against the group and Kivimaki is more personal, as he believes the youth is responsible for a bogus bomb threat that landed a plane he was on in August 2014. In the tweets targeting Kivimaki, who goes by the Twitter handle @what_security, Smedley made a series of threats, claiming he is “coming for” him and is considering mounting litigation against the ex-Lizard Squad hacker’s parents. You can see the full series of tweets below. Kivimaki isn’t the only Lizard squad hacker to come into Smedley’s firing line. He also targeted ex-Lizard Squad hacker Vinnie Omari, tweeting him an ominous message warning “he’ll get his day in court too.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisInBaltimore Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Sony Online Entertainment’s former CEO just declared war on the Lizard Squad hackers The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Microsoft Xbox Live Christmas service outage last year left many people red faced and angry, but few have taken it to the level of Daybreak, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, CEO John Smedley. Late last night Smedley spewed a torrent of hate against 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter mere moments after the youth, who describes himself online as an “untouchable hacker God,” was convicted of 50,700 computer crimes charges. The offences related to Kivimaki’s participation in the Lizard Squad hacking gang's "operations" and will see him serve a two-year suspended prison sentence. Kivimaki is believed to have taken part in a high profile cyber attack on PSN and Xbox live in December 2014. The incident saw the Lizard Squad target the gaming networks with a special type of attack, known as distributed denial of service (DDoS). DDoS attacks don’t actually hack services, or steal data from their victims, but are instead designed to knock online services offline. They work by overloading the back end servers running the services with requests — the equivalent of spamming them to death. The December incident left thousands of people unable to play Xbox and PlayStation games on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Smedley’s vendetta against the group and Kivimaki is more personal, as he believes the youth is responsible for a bogus bomb threat that landed a plane he was on in August 2014. In the tweets targeting Kivimaki, who goes by the Twitter handle @what_security, Smedley made a series of threats, claiming he is “coming for” him and is considering mounting litigation against the ex-Lizard Squad hacker’s parents. You can see the full series of tweets below. Kivimaki isn’t the only Lizard squad hacker to come into Smedley’s firing line. He also targeted ex-Lizard Squad hacker Vinnie Omari, tweeting him an ominous message warning “he’ll get his day in court too.” Those Lizard guys deserve to be held accountable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hog Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Sure. I get it... But this is the CEO - comments seem very unprofessional. Just an outsiders perspective. I also see this "declared war" as a pretty stupid invitation to thousands of kids with nothing better to do than play cyber war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisInBaltimore Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Sure. I get it... But this is the CEO - comments seem very unprofessional. Just an outsiders perspective. I also see this "declared war" as a pretty stupid invitation to thousands of kids with nothing better to do than play cyber war. It does say he's a former CEO, but I agree the comments are a bit unprofessional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagenish Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Sure. I get it... But this is the CEO - comments seem very unprofessional. Just an outsiders perspective. I also see this "declared war" as a pretty stupid invitation to thousands of kids with nothing better to do than play cyber war. It does say he's a former CEO, but I agree the comments are a bit unprofessional. i think his a loud to be unprofessional with everything that happen to him by the hackers at least his not causing any harm to himself & any around him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Play classic games in your browser! Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.8bbit.com Super Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.snesfun.com For Gameboy Games: http://www.gbafun.com For Atari 800: http://www.xlatari.com For Sega Genesis Games: http://www.ssega.com Sega Master/Game Gear/SC-1000 http://www.retrosega.com TurbografX 16 Games: http://www.tgx16.com For classic MS DOS Game http://www.xtdos.com For MSX Games: http://www.jamsx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr 9.8 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Play classic games in your browser! Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.8bbit.com Super Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.snesfun.com For Gameboy Games: http://www.gbafun.com For Atari 800: http://www.xlatari.com For Sega Genesis Games: http://www.ssega.com Sega Master/Game Gear/SC-1000 http://www.retrosega.com TurbografX 16 Games: http://www.tgx16.com For classic MS DOS Game http://www.xtdos.com For MSX Games: http://www.jamsx.com Is that legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ares Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Play classic games in your browser! Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.8bbit.com Super Nintendo Entertainment System http://www.snesfun.com For Gameboy Games: http://www.gbafun.com For Atari 800: http://www.xlatari.com For Sega Genesis Games: http://www.ssega.com Sega Master/Game Gear/SC-1000 http://www.retrosega.com TurbografX 16 Games: http://www.tgx16.com For classic MS DOS Game http://www.xtdos.com For MSX Games: http://www.jamsx.com Is that legal? Not sure but I think the copy write on the code behind behind most of the games has expired. The copywrite on the games themselves are still good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domo Arigato Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagenish Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 the gaming industry lost one of its finest gaints yesterday R.I.P. SATORU IWATA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvelfangirl Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domo Arigato Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 PlayStation CPU Powering Probe Travelling Towards Pluto MIPS R3000 CPU used in original PlayStation is being used to transmit data about Pluto back to Earth. The New Horizons space probe which recently completed a flyby of Pluto and beamed new images of the planet back to Earth is being guided by the same CPU which powered the original PlayStation console. As reported by The Verge, the probe contains a MIPS R3000 CPU, repurposed to "fire thrusters, monitor sensors, and transmit data." The same CPU was used in the original PlayStation console, which was first released in 1994 and ran at 33.8688MHz. It was implemented by NASA scientists in the New Horizons Space Probe, which was launched in 2006 and has travelled more than three billion miles in its journey. According to The Verge, NASA has always preferred hardware that has been "tried-and-tested" over newer technology, which may be riskier to use. Reliability is prioritised over power, which is why a 12-year-old CPU was used, with a few tweaks made to help with surviving in space. Various gaming hardware have been employed by NASA in its past projects, including use of the Kinect and Oculus Rift to control a robotic arm in real time. NASA has also revealed plans to use Microsoft's Hololens augmented reality headset in the International Space Station, where it will provide support and guidance for day-to-day actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicConnoisseur Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 the gaming industry lost one of its finest gaints yesterday R.I.P. SATORU IWATA RIP. Died young. This guy brought people Nintendo DS and Wii. The legacy of Satoru Iwata 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagenish Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 i wonder if these easter egg is a hint to a JL game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne-Tec Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 i wonder if these easter egg is a hint to a JL game. That is one really cool easter egg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisInBaltimore Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 My kids have been loving the Lego Marvel game. My 3 year old son just likes messing around. He drives cars and flies to the Helicarrier and stuff. My 10 year old is having fun trying to get characters. Right now she is trying to find all the Guardians of the Galaxy characters and she was surprised to learn Nova was a Guardian since he wasn't in the movie. Lego has really been genius with all these games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian48 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 i wonder if these easter egg is a hint to a JL game. That is one really cool easter egg. Wasn't Starro a whole heck of a lot bigger than that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Romeo Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Iron Man mod in GTA V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr 9.8 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 i wonder if these easter egg is a hint to a JL game. That is one really cool easter egg. Wasn't Starro a whole heck of a lot bigger than that? He had mini Starro's that would latch on to a victims face ala facehugger and take control of their host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiamSturgess Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 That is immensely cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
