Jeremy, It's highly unlikely that the attacks you're seeing are from your players. There's not really any incentive for them, and direct attacks are so easy to track back that if it were one of your players, you should be able to smash them easily.
I say this because we get literally thousands of such attacks a month on the Alter Aeon server. They come from all over the world and in all different types, from attempts on our forum and wiki to portscans to common backdoors and brute force ssh login attempts. The automated attack of login names and passwords hits us between five and ten times daily. I don't even bother to pay attention to the reports on that anymore. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Jeremy Kaldobsky <jer...@kaldobsky.com> wrote: > Dark, > > From sighted indie games of my past, I'm used to the idea of hackers > trying to ruin everyone's fun, so that doesn't upset me as much as others > might think. Yeah it does annoy me, but I don't take it quite as personal as > maybe I should, just because I've seen it for so many years. > > What does get under my skin is that several of the Swamp hackers have > changed tactics over the past 4 or 5 months, and they go after my personal > property. In fact, in just the past few weeks with the new testing server up > I've had 2 pretty big attacks that were aimed at damaging my laptop, not > Swamp! I highly doubt these people are smart enough to be developing these > attacks themselves, rather they probably find shady websites and download > tools to make these attacks for them, but that doesn't change the situation > very much. The last one was an attack I've personally never seen before. > The automated attack went through each of the devices in my local LAN and > spammed them with a huge list of common login names and passwords, hoping > they'd get luck on one of them. > > This is the kind of stuff that could eventually ruin multiplayer audio > games just like most multiplayer mainstream indie games have happen to them. > The problem is that while mainstream indie games continue to come out by the > hundreds and thousands, audio games trickle in at a very slow pace. We > simply cannot afford to see a day when 95% of them are crushed by hackers as > soon as they get popular. I don't have a plan to solve this issue, but I > sure hope someone does. > > - Aprone --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
