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Blizzard Hit By Multiple DDoS Attacks
5Players couldn’t log into games like World of Warcraft and Diablo III for several hours last night thanks to a series of DDoS attacks that flooded Blizzard’s servers, the developer said. Blizzard says they have since thwarted the problem, though some login issues could linger this morning.
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For The First Time, A Banned League Of Legends Pro Gets Second Chance
Last night, Riot put out an update about the status of several high-profile League of Legends players who’ve been suspended or banned from the game due to their toxic behaviour. Buried in the details was an interesting detail: in an unprecedented move, one player’s permaban from competitive play was removed entirely.
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The White House Is Now Taking Steps To Fight DDoS Attacks
Last month, attackers took down the PlayStation Network for several days, embarrassing Sony and leaving tons and tons of gamers unable to feed their Destiny addictions for almost a week. This is all thanks to what’s called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where a person or a group of people send an inflated amount…
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How EA, League Of Legends And Battle.net Were Brought Down
Last week, a group calling itself DERP launched DDoS attacks on the servers of a number of the world’s biggest games (and games companies). It seemed like an awfully big list of victims for such a simple and ancient form of attack, but as Ars Technica explain, there was a bit more to it than…