Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack

Posted by Hemos on from the how-many-games-do-you-have dept.

w4rl5ck writes "PivX has this security advisory about DDoS attacks using a single modem line and some game servers (i.e. Counter Strike, QuakeX, Battlefield 1942 - in short, those supporting GameSpy). Works via spoofed udp packages querying the server stats, and because udp is connectionless, the server simply answers - to the spoofed address, of course. Funny thing, isn't it? (originally found on heise.de)"

2 of 188 comments (clear)

  1. hehehe by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Kill your enemies. Kill those not on your team. Kill a server.

    All in a days work.

    *SNIFF* "God I love the smell of napalm^H^H^H^H^H^H severs burning in the morning"

    --
    Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
  2. That Explains It by Sayten241 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always knew that the 'D' in D-Day stood for DDoS.