helring Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Update on Service Disruptions Hi everyone, Many of you may have noticed intermittent connectivity problems with our game servers, which have manifested as disconnections or prolonged lag. I wanted to personally make you aware of the current issues we are experiencing and what we are doing to resolve the situation. For over a year now, we have been the target of numerous DDoS attacks against our game. For those of you who do not know, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), is an attack directed at an online service such as RuneScape.com, designed to disrupt the website, forums or game by making it completely unavailable, or disrupting traffic from legitimate end users such as yourself. Techniques vary, but essentially a DDoS attack involves overwhelming the online service with malicious traffic. This is - unfortunately - a growing plague within the industry that many online services struggle with, and RuneScape appears to be one of the biggest targets. Motives for launching these attacks vary, but the end result is the same. The sharp increase in attacks does tie closely with removal of bots and gold farming, and equally malicious websites like [BadSite] continue to target and take credit for RuneScape service outages. I wanted to take this opportunity to assure you that we have, are and will continue to work tirelessly, preventing as many of these attacks from affecting your gameplay as we can. We have recently made a multi-million pound investment in our global IT infrastructure to deal with the continued attacks and are working with a number of service and security providers to eradicate the issue completely. We are also working closely with worldwide law enforcement agencies to bring the people responsible for these attacks to justice. I also want to assure all our players that no personal information is at risk as a result of these DDoS attacks. We will continue to fight this threat and are doing everything in our power to ensure RuneScape.com remains available for you to play 24/7. Anyone with information to offer on DDoS attacks or their source is welcome to contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for your understanding and continued support. Mark GerhardJagex CEO R.I.P. The olde nite. A legend is gone but not forgotten. a Faction Related Item Sink for Rune Labs. https://[LikelyScam]/m=player-proposal/a=13/c=VcG-Ir5Ijno/view-idea?idea=19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helring Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 Wasn't sure if there was already a topic going discussing the servers but if there is then mods feel free to merge this. R.I.P. The olde nite. A legend is gone but not forgotten. a Faction Related Item Sink for Rune Labs. https://[LikelyScam]/m=player-proposal/a=13/c=VcG-Ir5Ijno/view-idea?idea=19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howlin0001 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Anyone with information to offer on DDoS attacks or their source is welcome to contact us at [email protected].To me it sounds like they don't really know who is doing that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Of Lego Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Something about this makes me feel that theres more to the story. Expecially with the regular maintenance they have been doing lately. But bots aint totally gone. So botters wouldnt want to ruin their own bots right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovecuttingyews Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Anyone with information to offer on DDoS attacks or their source is welcome to contact us at [email protected].To me it sounds like they don't really know who is doing that.To me it sounds just that more info can't hurt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wkw Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Well, it took them a month to admit that there was a problem.. And they admitted that they weren't causing it, to boot! 1 Runescape player since 2005 Ego Sum Deus Quo Malum Caligo et Barathum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiel Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Motives for launching these attacks vary, but the end result is the same. The sharp increase in attacks does tie closely with removal of bots and gold farming, and equally malicious websites like [BadSite] continue to target and take credit for RuneScape service outages. "MMG! MMG! Everyone kept buying gold from RWT because it's half as expensive as bonds! I know! Let's tell them RWTers are DDoSing runescape!" :rolleyes: 3 DK drops (solo/LS): 66 hatchets, 14 archer rings, 13 berserker rings, 17 warrior rings, 12 seerculls, 13 mud staves, 7 seers ringsQBD drops: 1 kite, 2 visages, 4 dragonbone kits, 3 effigies, lots of crossbow partsCR vs. CLS threads always turn into discussions about penis size....It's not called a Compensation Longsword for nothing.I've sent a 12k combat mission to have Aiel assassinated (poor bastard isn't even Pincers-tier difficulty). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IridiumBunny Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Well, it took them a month to admit that there was a problem.. And they admitted that they weren't causing it, to boot! Would have been nice if they had admitted a problem a lot earlier, but fair enough that they didn't disclose that DDOS attacks were behind it until now. Doing so before they had a handle on it would have given those responsible confirmation that the attacks were working, and only encouraged them to do it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Good to know, thanks. Luckily it seems my homeworld has been spared from lag recently.. "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omali Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Motives for launching these attacks vary, but the end result is the same. The sharp increase in attacks does tie closely with removal of bots and gold farming, and equally malicious websites like [BadSite] continue to target and take credit for RuneScape service outages. "MMG! MMG! Everyone kept buying gold from RWT because it's half as expensive as bonds! I know! Let's tell them RWTers are DDoSing runescape!" :rolleyes: Many MMOs suffer DDOS attacks in retaliation from gold farmers and cheaters. The forum for Garry's Mod (Facepunch) gets DDoS'd every time they ban another cheat program, and so do many other games. Not saying that is guaranteed to be the case this time, but it isn't exactly uncommon. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Well, that's fair then. Sad to see people feel the need to DDoS, hope Jagex gets their systems proofed. You can't really be mad at Jagex for this, as basically every service gets hit by DDoS at some point (big banks and stuff as well, who don't exactly have small IT budgets). Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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