Steam Down Again?

[Marty Ward]

I saw LB playing Orcs must Die as well.  All is indeed right with the universe.   :)

My new strategy wasn't working so I rage quit.

The blizzard outside is making me stir crazy. I got my quota of NFL football yesterday and now have nothing to look forward to but more football or reruns of Property Brothers.

Maybe I need to go and paint some minis. Electronics aren't cutting it for me today.

Try some tequila, it always brightens my day :)

[Gusington]

Careful LB...

[Nefaro]

Maybe I need to go and paint some minis. Electronics aren't cutting it for me today.

I have a bunch of Cold War era jets that need painting.  You can do those for me.  :P

[LongBlade]

Maybe I need to go and paint some minis. Electronics aren't cutting it for me today.

I have a bunch of Cold War era jets that need painting.  You can do those for me.  :P

That reminds me. I've still got a model sitting around here that's about 90% finished then needs paint. Thanks!

[LongBlade]

Careful LB...

<chuckle> (in a non-threatening way. seriously. what? this axe? it's nothing.)

[SgtRock]

Appears it is under some sort of hacker attack.  Found this on the Strategy Informer website. http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/26746/steam-hit-by-ddos-attacks

It should be legal to track down script kiddies and beat the ever living sh*t out of them. Welcome to repercussions, worthless douchebags.

It's very difficult to track down attacks by pros because, most are planned weeks/months in advance by infected dummy computers/servers, some behind multiple proxy servers with spoofed IP address from around the world. Some attacks don't even attack the severs but, the networks & networking devices. When the attacks happen., the attackers sometimes aren't even on-line and the original networks used to setup the attacks are long gone! These days, it could very well be some government/agency playing with one of their new toys!

[SgtRock]

Here's some info on the attack that hit game servers, although it doesn't mention Steam, Steam has yet to release any info.


http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/dos-attacks-that-took-down-big-game-sites-abused-webs-time-synch-protocol/

[LongBlade]

Here's some info on the attack that hit game servers, although it doesn't mention Steam, Steam has yet to release any info.


http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/dos-attacks-that-took-down-big-game-sites-abused-webs-time-synch-protocol/

Why can't they just leave people alone?