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Foreign adversaries likely to exploit critical networking bug, US gov says
Enlarge Ivan Radic Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government are likely to exploit a critical vulnerability in a host and VPN and firewall products sold by Palo Alto Networks, officials in the US federal government warned on Tuesday. In worst-case scenarios, the security vendor said in a post, the flaw allows unauthorized people to […]
How to set up a dedicated Terraria server for networking newbies
Terraria‘s fourth major content update, Journey’s End, is here. Fit with new bosses, a balance overhaul, graphical improvements, and over 1,000 new items, Journey’s End feels like Terraria 2. One thing that, thankfully, hasn’t changed is multiplayer. Even with the new additions, Journey’s End is a multiplayer game at its core, and the best way to play […]
Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking
Enlarge massmatt Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform. A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against game servers were making the news and becoming a frustratingly frequent occurrence in online gaming and e-sports. To protect its own games, Valve has for a number of […]