@darkangel115: I said it was a DNS attack because it was reported as such. If you have issues with that go talk to news sites.
And there is no sure fire way to prevent DNS attacks, which should be apparent by now to you when you see a kid buying a botnet for a few hundred bucks and knocking out websites at will. If you want to give your customers access to your network, there has to be a connection portal. If that portal gets overwhelmed by a spam attack of bogus connect attempts, real customers have a problem logging in. It leads to intermittent usage. You know, like we are seeing today. The only way to completely prevent DNS attacks is to close the portal, which defeats the purpose.
Sony has fanboys that hate it. Hell, Somy has Nations that hate it. But blaming the victim of a crime is a pretty shitty thing to do. Especially if you can't point specifically to something they aren't doing that would stop the attacks. It'd be like me blaming you for not answering my phone call while 20 jerks kept redialing your number constantly.
So, do you have a specific solution? Something everyone else in the IT community has been missing?
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