UT3 Servers down worldwide?

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Zur

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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.

This guy has issues.
 

*PRC*Kensei

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mine is back up now..

but... what the hell are we gonna do in responce to this ? who's gonna help us.

i think we had same prob yesterday, then we got it back working, and now again it went down, and only just got it back working few minutes ago.

run for the hills ? :-/
 

Defeat

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I've been able to play 1 full game in the past 2 days on a server. Luckily most servers have restart scripts but they're useless if no one can play games on server. :[
 

Beelzebud (Satanas)

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If it's only affecting Epic games, which it appears to be, then yes Epic needs to "clean up their crap".

TF2, Quake Wars, and Crysis are currently sailing along nice and smooth.
 

Jrubzjeknf

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Its an Unreal Engine issue. It affects UT3, UT2004 and even AA. And while Epic patches things up, they could fix other security issues as well. For example, a server I play on often gets crashed by someone with a dynamic IP and who spoofs GUIDs.
 

Phopojijo

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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.
That's how security works though -- see Defcon :p
 

HudsonC

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This guy goes out and crashes servers all over the place and now he want's us to trust him to fix the problem he created by installing software by him. I don't think so!
 

UnrealGrrl

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yeah really fukc him and his 'patch'. like im really going to put hacker code on a server and trust it. if he didnt do "research" in the 1st place there would be no problem. guys just cant help showing off epen0r is the problem :eek: thx to this "research" servers cant stay up at all now, great...
 

GreatEmerald

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Interestingly, this doesn't affect less-known custom gametypes... That is, they're just not targeted. So, someone must be using a tool to find servers with specific search terms or something?
 

Akira Kurosawa

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I haven't been following this at all. Any one got a link to 'his' posts?
Also if true, that the info was given to epic first. And if it is a strictly unreal engine problem. Then I would blame epic. For not looking into it from the start.
But I know little on whats happening so ignore me. (private servers ftw.)
 

Wormbo

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It's impossible to write bug free software, especially something as complex as a multiplayer online game. The only thing you could possibly blame Epic for is that they abandoned UT2004 development in favor of newer games like GoW(2) and UT3.

What is a problem, though, is releasing critical bugs to the public without giving developers even the slightest chance for a fix. And that can only be blamed on the person releasing the info.
 

Akira Kurosawa

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In conjunction with what I said above. I would blame epic for not finding a solution for such a critical hole, 'When' it was released to them in advanced.
I don't blame the person for releasing the info. Infact glad he did. It creates
incentive to fix it.

Hack a Mac competition encourages revealing known exploits. So they can fix all of them.
 

Sir_Brizz

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There is nothing showing he ever did notify Epic. In fact, he makes a point of mentioning on his site that he doesn't notify companies before releasing the info.
 

T2A`

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If he's trying to get a job as security analyst or something, he's definitely going about it the wrong way. He should've told Epic so he could put it on his resume. :p
 

TheSynGame

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yeah really fukc him and his 'patch'. like im really going to put hacker code on a server and trust it. if he didnt do "research" in the 1st place there would be no problem. guys just cant help showing off epen0r is the problem :eek: thx to this "research" servers cant stay up at all now, great...

Yeah except someone tried it and it worked...
 
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