Security Forum?

[TheCryptowizard]

I'm hoping you will entertain my idea of a forum dedicated to sharing the IP addresses of spammers and attackers.

It has come to my attention as a teamspeak server admin of a few years, and knowing other admins, that there are quite a few utilities, scripts, and the people behind them that are able to spam the server with rapid login/logouts, spam text in the client, and even retrieve passwords by brute force. I'm not here to complain; I'm here to ask for community cooperation and better organization against these nerds that find it necessary to be a hindrance.

Better coordination of attacks can also help the development team learn how they're doing it as well as watch trends. It will also enable the teamspeak community to recognize the issue as an isolated incident or a community-wide problem.

I'm a gamer, and many of the gaming communities of which I am a part of does something like this, and it is quite successful.

Please consider.

/r

[BHKai]

Most the problems can be solved from upgrading to the beta version, which is not done by almost all of the TS hosting companies and people that host servers. The only problem that could affect a fully upgraded server that is known to all hackers and admins is just an SA that falls for granting a person admin rights.

With IP address and proxies it is almost pointless to do such a thing. You may be thinking of a "punkbuster" kind of thing but that is something totally different and has special registration and coding of the program.

Until IPv6 and everyone in the world has a static IP it is pointless to try and stop people by the IP that they use.

[WinnieJ]

BHKai can you ever see a day when TS could utilize a MAC style or a key registration type style method of ban? I agree that I.P ban only keeps the most stupid of spammers and want to be hackers out.

[BHKai]

Mac is pointless also people can change that at will.

Key registration might make it a little harder/longer but unlike games, TS is free. The only way to track registering would be the person email address, or something of a sort, to tie it to a key. So just create another email address, or whatever, and you are set free to get banned again. Flaw of TS being free.