Half-Life2
Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:35 am
Valve Confirms Half-Life 2 Code Exposure. - Rhoam
Managing Director Gabe Newell of Valve Software confirmed on Halflife2.net that the source code for one of the most anticipated titles in recent history, Half-Life 2, has been stolen and posted on the internet.
According to Newell, the company has been the victim of a concerted attack by infiltrators using denial of service attacks and keystroke recorders to penetrate the network and copy the source tree for Half-Life 2.
Managing Director Gabe Newell of Valve Software confirmed on Halflife2.net that the source code for one of the most anticipated titles in recent history, Half-Life 2, has been stolen and posted on the internet.
According to Newell, the company has been the victim of a concerted attack by infiltrators using denial of service attacks and keystroke recorders to penetrate the network and copy the source tree for Half-Life 2.
Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:59 am
Ah, some of my students did their assignments already. 
Fri Oct 03, 2003 8:47 am
Lol...
This sucks because multiplayer is going to be filled with cheats!
This sucks because multiplayer is going to be filled with cheats!
Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:11 am
Looks like they should've hired a BETTER Network Security person! 
Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:47 am
Originally posted by Wairudo Enjin
Looks like they should've hired a BETTER Network Security person!
I know
Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:13 am
Looks like they should have had enough common sense to not have these computers hooked up to the internet.
Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:22 am
Originally posted by JimmyTango
Looks like they should have had enough common sense to not have these computers hooked up to the internet.
That's just impractical!
Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:45 am
from the valve forums...
Gabe Newell
Managing Director
Valve Software
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Gabe Newell
Managing Director
Valve Software
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:50 am
Just to make things a bit easier to keep track of topics, continue this discussion first posted here
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