DDoS Attacks On Xbox Live Were 'A Learning Experience'

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Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft's Xbox division, says recent DDoS attacks on Xbox Live were a learning experience and that his company is working with Sony and Nintendo to prevent future attacks.

Spencer also shared that he's been having conversations with other companies, like Sony and Nintendo, about this very topic. He says working and learning together can only benefit everyone. "I don't think it's great when PSN goes down," Spencer says. "It doesn't help me. All it does is put the fear and distrust from any gamer that's out there, so I look at all of us together as this is our collective opportunity to share what we can about what we're learning and how things are growing. Those conversations happen, which I think is great."
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"and what we learned was that blaming any internal outage on a DDoS is a great way to deflect blame onto an unverifable source. It's awesome. Nobody even questions it."
 
I would have thought that Microsoft would have experienced DDoS attacks before, or did they just not learn anything from previous experiences?
 
BladeVenom said:
I would have thought that Microsoft would have experienced DDoS attacks before, or did they just not learn anything from previous experiences?
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DDoS is just a class of attack, the actual attack can vary... The shear size also varies greatly.
 
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