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Heizhi black! Sony using DDoS attack hackers

Get into hackers Sony is trying to recoup their losses, and now it intends to hit back with a way to fight fire with fire.

Last month, Sony's Web site was hacked, the attacker "peacekeeper (GOP)" will be part of Sony's sensitive information to the public.

Now, Sony the data disseminated on the Internet, according to Re/code report, Sony plans to use an ancient and radical way to fight back: two people familiar with the matter said, Sony is using hundreds of computers in Asia, to store stolen data Web site launched a DDoS attack. This time, the Sony Pictures uses the Amazon Web services (AWS), located in Singapore and the Tokyo server to attack.

Full name of the DDoS attack denial-of-service attack, also known as flood attack is a kind of malicious cyber attacks, whose objective is to connect the target computer's network resources and network on system resources are depleted, making the host connected to the Internet is temporarily interrupt or stop the service, making it unable to provide service to normal users.

In this regard, Amazon said in a response to Re/code, the active connection does not take place in these reports on AWS services. AWS employing more automated detection and mitigation techniques to protect servers from abuse. Amazon does not detect and stop the abuse cases, and not in the manual operation.

On November 24, the Sony video network in the industry were claimed to be "the peacekeeper (GOP)" organizational and Sony Pictures have appeared on employee's computer threatened to remove it from the servers of Sony Pictures's "secret" unveiled warnings. A few days later, it appeared on Reddit 217.6 megabytes of compressed files, these files include the mailbox password Sony Pictures employee contracts, employee, payroll records, identity theft, social security account number.

On Monday, Sony Entertainment Network and PlayStation Network services are also under attack.