UT3 Servers down worldwide?
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The same guy that released exploit code for an expoit a month ago or so just released a bunch more code exploits (that work in just about all multiplayer games ever created) all over the web. So an attacker can take down hundreds of servers without even blinking. Really annoying.
Yep, UT2004 (I know this is the UT3 section) Servers are going up and down like mad too.
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It seems a ban won't work. His IP can be found in the logs though. So enough letters to the corresponding ISPs might help.
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It seems a ban won't work. His IP can be found in the logs though. So enough letters to the corresponding ISPs might help.
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Yeah. But this is not useful for servers of a gaming-server company who wants people from that range on their servers too.
so much for that guy being a security researcher, because I doubt he notified Epic of his findings before disclosing the problems (and releasing PoCs). A bunch of years ago the same guy at least notified Epic of some bugs, and disclosed the bugs to the public a few months after he notified Epic.
Want to "praise" the guy responsible for this mess? Send your appreciations to aluigi@autistici.org.
Wait, what? Color me unaware. D:
I see CoD4 still has 10000+ US players right now whilst UT3 only has 81. That's sad even by UT3 standards. So is he attacking all games or just Unreal?
I see CoD4 still has 10000+ US players right now whilst UT3 only has 81. That's sad even by UT3 standards. So is he attacking all games or just Unreal?
He doesn't actually "attack" games. He "only" discovers critical bugs, posting detailed descriptions and proof-of-concept exploits publicly without notifying the affected games' developers.
Basically he's like a cheat codes, claiming to do it for "research" and publishing his findings. The only difference is, he doesn't take any money for it and doesn't keep it as secret as the usual cheaters. And he probably doesn't actively use the exploits himself. Then again, he really doesn't have to, some script kiddies already take care of it.
Basically he's like a cheat codes, claiming to do it for "research" and publishing his findings. The only difference is, he doesn't take any money for it and doesn't keep it as secret as the usual cheaters. And he probably doesn't actively use the exploits himself. Then again, he really doesn't have to, some script kiddies already take care of it.
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ohh well, it could be worse you know, GameSpy could have gone down again, and then there'd be zero servers and you coulden't even play offline! 
As far as the IP is concerned, if he is smart, hes using a proxy, so blocking his ip, and/or ip range isnt going to be an efficient way of dealing with the problem. Epic just needs to clean their crap up to make it work right BEFORE shipping the game. In the time I have been playing UT (since ut99) this is probably one of the sloppiest, and most unprofessionally released title from them that I am aware of. There may be others from epic, but Im unaware of it. Kind of discouraging tbh. As a sidenote: UT3 is $19.99 at best-buy now. Epic failure 
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