Hackers want to bring down Xbox Live & PSN again this Christmas. Ho Ho... oh FFS | GamesRadar
http://www.gamesradar.com/phantom-squad ... christmas/

I wouldn't claim to know anything about such attacks, but I find it incredible that in this day and age they can't be at least mitigated quickly. It's a bad feeling when a bunch of total arseholes are more believable than, well, the idiots at the companies