A potential hacking attack on the level of last year's PSN outage could be in the planning after Xbox Live was listed as several websites a section of Anonymous wants to attack as part of the retribution against Megaupload being taken down.
Anonymous earlier managed to take offline CBS and Universal Studios websites due to their strong support for SOPA. UFC appears to have been taken down either by a different group or a splinter group from Anonymous.
According to the official Twitter feed of the group, they have no plans to attack social sites nor any site that removed their previous support for SOPA. The main reason was either those sites provide a social presence for the group (ex. Youtube, Twitter) or already listened to their demands and dropped support for SOPA.
It is also assumed a splinter group might be responsible for the threats with even the possibility of Xbox Live being attacked as a revenge attack by Pro-Sony/PS3 members who were upset at Spny's PSN being attacked last year.
Traditionally Xbox Live usually suffers just phishing attacks designed to go after member emails but this would be the first attack specifically targeting the entire network.
http://kotaku.com/5878271/anonymous-...xbox-live-next
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Daily Recap:
1) A bunch of PS3 related news as Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City will be arriving soon as a PS2 classic on the PSN store while Syphon Filter 4 and God of War 4 are rumored to have an official debut next month.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-3/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-in-february/
2) 343 Industries have warned potential Halo fans on Twitter of a phissing attack involving fake Halo 4 beta invites being sent out to steal user information.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/thos...testheyre-fake
3) While David Jaffe supported no passes for the upcoming Twisted Metal to prevent any chances of sales being impacted, Sony has responded by adding an online pass for the game as part of their recent policy to add the pass to all 1st party games.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/twis...ve-online-pass