Hey, that's a nice one =) I like such technical issues and their explanations - helps to see a glimpse of how systems work. I wonder though, how perverted someone might be to want to take down Steam?.. Glad they miserably failed again.

well... it look as previous one... 🙁 sad for them but maybe it's time to change of provider if they don't want to loose customers.

Nice nice.. cyber terror. I have 1200+ games in steam. If they are stolen my account and if I do not get back, i sue the Valve and i give back my full money! I leave it up to the supreme court!!

I wonder though, how perverted someone might be to want to take down Steam?.. Glad they miserably failed again.

lot of people want 🙂 but it look like a fail again, yes... and it doesn't make the steam fail more acceptable (again also)... lol

I wonder though, how perverted someone might be to want to take down Steam?.. Glad they miserably failed again.

There's always someone with a reason. Someone with grudge against video games or maybe a competitor would be prime suspects. Or maybe someone did it for the lolz or just to put his botnet to use. Or someone who enjoys taking down random stuff because it gives them a sense of accomplishment. I for one would sure be proud of myself if I could take such a big web application down.

Well the hackers need to get a life if u ask me , why bother with steam and us gamers when they could focus on taking down terrorists bank accounts and such and actual do some good in the world if they feel the need to do these attacks.

Well the hackers need to get a life if u ask me , why bother with steam and us gamers when they could focus on taking down terrorists bank accounts and such and actual do some good in the world if they feel the need to do these attacks.

Most of them have a life 🙂 Why do that? because it's a chalenge, because steam s*ck, because you have time to kill, because they don't like the teal and black logo etc... always a reason lol. Not only terrorist there is lot of naughty people too 🙂 but yes they do that too. but the main issue is not the DDOS (borring for user) but the cache issue (wich is from steam service provider) and so the one to blame the most as it is not the 1st time it happen... is Steam.

Well the hackers need to get a life if u ask me , why bother with steam and us gamers when they could focus on taking down terrorists bank accounts and such and actual do some good in the world if they feel the need to do these attacks.

It's not exactly easy to get relevant information so that you can disrupt terrorist communications. Applications with public addresses however, are far easier to take down. Or at least to try to take down.

Nice nice.. cyber terror. I have 1200+ games in steam. If they are stolen my account and if I do not get back, i sue the Valve and i give back my full money! I leave it up to the supreme court!!

lol @ this defensive useless post.

Seems like attacks on game networks are a new holiday tradition. This had insignificant impact, and affected only a tiny percentage of users. It's barely worth mentioning...

Totally stupid creatures who have nothing better to do in life besides trying to undermine the lives of others. Little people.

Nice nice.. cyber terror. I have 1200+ games in steam. If they are stolen my account and if I do not get back, i sue the Valve and i give back my full money! I leave it up to the supreme court!!

Such a silly comment. They gave out no information that could lead to your account being stolen so settle down with your useless threats

This wasn't "terror". Just good ol' negligence. 100% Valves own doing. You can sue them too in most countries for this. 🙂

I for one would sure be proud of myself if I could take such a big web application down.

What a completely selfish attitude. Reading stuff like this really craps me off. You would take down Steam at the expense of the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of Steam users just because of some pathetic personal satisfaction?? It is truly sad that there are people in this world that crave attention and recognition so badly that they would sacrifice the security of peoples accounts. It shows that there is something missing in these peoples pathetic lives. To justify such activity by saying things like "Steam sucks" is no excuse for putting ones own selfish pride and satisfaction above others. No one should ever be proud in inflicting damage on any innocent people no matter how big or small or how justified they feel in doing so.

What a completely selfish attitude. Reading stuff like this really craps me off. You would take down Steam at the expense of the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of Steam users just because of some pathetic personal satisfaction?? It is truly sad that there are people in this world that crave attention and recognition so badly that they would sacrifice the security of peoples accounts. It shows that there is something missing in these peoples pathetic lives. To justify such activity by saying things like "Steam sucks" is no excuse for putting ones own selfish pride and satisfaction above others. No one should ever be proud in inflicting damage on any innocent people no matter how big or small or how justified they feel in doing so.

I barely even mentioned the concept and you jumped right in blaming my false ideologies based on assumptions that you think are correct. If I were able to, I would take down various Steam services for maybe a few minutes just to prove it can be done. Steam would immediately study the attack and prevent future similar attacks from being successful, thus making Steam as a whole more secure. I love Steam. It's an awesome platform. So yeah. You bet your ass I would be proud if I could achieve such a feat, I would have basically proven that I could single-handedly outsmart a whole division of programmers while at the same time 'help' them in making their services more reliable. Would you not be?

And the drama with Steam accounts continue ! Someone in Russia changed this guy's Steam account, and he can't change it back :eek3: On Christmas Day, hackers took down the popular online video gaming site Steam. As Steam fixed the problem, some sensitive information about users was accidentally exposed... Whole story and source here: http://news.yahoo.com/someone-russia-changed-guys-steam-184614223.html?nf=1

And the drama with Steam accounts continue ! Someone in Russia changed this guy's Steam account, and he can't change it back :eek3: On Christmas Day, hackers took down the popular online video gaming site Steam. As Steam fixed the problem, some sensitive information about users was accidentally exposed... Whole story and source here: http://news.yahoo.com/someone-russia-changed-guys-steam-184614223.html?nf=1

Entirely different issue that happened months ago. There is no connection to this latest snafu. I was not affected since I didn't log in to Steam during the vulnerable period.

I barely even mentioned the concept and you jumped right in blaming my false ideologies based on assumptions that you think are correct. If I were able to, I would take down various Steam services for maybe a few minutes just to prove it can be done. Steam would immediately study the attack and prevent future similar attacks from being successful, thus making Steam as a whole more secure. I love Steam. It's an awesome platform. So yeah. You bet your ass I would be proud if I could achieve such a feat, I would have basically proven that I could single-handedly outsmart a whole division of programmers while at the same time 'help' them in making their services more reliable. Would you not be?

This DoS attack didn't take smarts nor was it in reality the proximate cause of the issue: How it happened Early Christmas morning (Pacific Standard Time), the Steam Store was the target of a DoS attack which prevented the serving of store pages to users. Attacks against the Steam Store, and Steam in general, are a regular occurrence that Valve handles both directly and with the help of partner companies, and typically do not impact Steam users. During the Christmas attack, traffic to the Steam store increased 2000% over the average traffic during the Steam Sale. In response to this specific attack, caching rules managed by a Steam web caching partner were deployed in order to both minimize the impact on Steam Store servers and continue to route legitimate user traffic. During the second wave of this attack, a second caching configuration was deployed that incorrectly cached web traffic for authenticated users. This configuration error resulted in some users seeing Steam Store responses which were generated for other users. Incorrect Store responses varied from users seeing the front page of the Store displayed in the wrong language, to seeing the account page of another user. Once this error was identified, the Steam Store was shut down and a new caching configuration was deployed. The Steam Store remained down until we had reviewed all caching configurations, and we received confirmation that the latest configurations had been deployed to all partner servers and that all cached data on edge servers had been purged. http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852/?snr=1_550_552

This wasn't "terror". Just good ol' negligence. 100% Valves own doing. You can sue them too in most countries for this. 🙂

You only have legal standing in court if you can prove you were directly harmed by what happened AND that the negligence was intentional. (they were warned of a problem and chose to ignore it)

My opinion: It all depends on real motives and results. Motives: 1. To show Valve Steam suck. - Good. 2. To show Valve Steam is insecure. - Good. 3. To steal private users information for use of selling private info, making information open or in any way harming the user instead of Valve. - Bad. 4. To make users not able to play on a certain day or days. - Bad. 5. For own satisfaction. - Bad. 6. To show world, that Steam is insecure. - Good. 7. To make Valve change its policies for the good of users. - Good. If motives are good, but results are bad: Users unable to play during holidays like Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year etc. - Good. "People should spend that time with their close ones." Users loosing their privacy to bad hands. - Bad. Users unable to play. - Acceptable Users loosing their money in any way (Stolen accounts, virtual products or gifts etc...). - Bad. "Even though smarter people don't buy game items, game money, dlcs etc..."