Remember the Christmas Day takedowns of the XBox and PlayStation gaming networks? It was carried out using compromised home routers…

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The DDoS attacks that knocked both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network (PSN) offline around Christmas came at the hands of a botnet comprised largely of hacked home routers.