Getting “booted off” Xbox Live

According to the BBC certain individuals are selling services to boot Live users off. People are supposedly using this as a way to get revenge on players that they’ve fallen out with. The story states that these are the same methods that have been used against websites for years. It sounds to me like a DOS (Denial of Service) attack. This would mean they’re probably going by IP address and then flooding that particular users connection.

The issue with stopping this is that it’s not really an attack through Xbox Live as such and therefore stopping it isn’t really down to Microsoft, although they’ve said they will take action against users caught using this. The perpetrators of these attacks are using networks of hijacked computers to send the data i.e. a botnet.

There’s a no easy solution to this problem and that’s somethign microsoft is well aware of, it’s not something new it’s an old problem that’s existed within other types of online activity but that’s just become an annoying weapon in the Xbox Live community, read more of the story here on the BBC.