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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)"

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  1. DOS not DDOS by SirCrashALot · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A DDOS attack is a distributed denial of service attack, one where many servers all send packets to take down a network. As this article states, it is a dos attack. You hit one server at a time. If you send packets to multiple servers, then it can be a ddos, but not in the sense where there is very little disruption from the source of the attack.
    This attack can take down the "source server" as well as the destination.