the evil "unreliable data gram protocol"

Sat Jan 18, 2003 10:25 pm

well simply

from [url=mohadmin.com]Mohadmin.com[/url]
MOHMultiplayer game servers that let players attack each other in virtual worlds could be the latest tool for online scofflaws to digitally attack other computers on the Internet, a security firm said on Thursday

just some interesting news.

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981255.html?tag=fd_top

Sun Jan 19, 2003 4:46 am

i dont understand it completely but does this mean that if we are playing on a server our computer could be under attack from some kind of person ??????

Mon Jan 20, 2003 10:22 pm

I see what it's saying.

SilverSurfer, it has nothing to do if you're playing or not.

The basic idea is that an evil_d00d sends a status request to a server with a spoofed source IP address. The game server then sends the (much larger) status response to the IP address that evil_d00d spoofed. It acts like a network traffic magnifier with an arbitrary destination.