Posts from 2020
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Practical Testing: 38 - Bringing the code up to date, again...
Previously on “Practical Testing”… The last time I updated the code was in 2016, things have changed quite a lot since then with several new compilers and several compilers that I no longer support. There are very few … -
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Strangely fatal UDP issue on Windows...
UPDATED: 23 August 2021 see here One of my clients runs game servers on the cloud. They have an AWFUL lot of them and have run them for a long time. Every so often they have problems with DDOS attacks on their servers. They have upstream … -
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Are all fully patched Windows boxes really vulnerable to this easy UDP DDOS attack?
UPDATED: 23 August 2021 see here As I mentioned a while ago, it seems there’s a strangely fatal bug in the Windows networking stack at present. This manifests as massive non-paged pool memory usage if a process creates a UDP socket, …
