Why Lizard Squad and others target game servers with DDoS attacks

Recently, we’ve seen everyone from hacktivist collectives to lone wolves use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, League of Legends, and Blizzard networks.

As an avid gamer, and as someone who works to protect companies from DDoS attacks, these were especially interesting to witness—allowing me to experience them from two very different perspectives.