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DDoS Extortion Attempts On the Rise

Posted by michael on from the pay-to-play dept.

John Flabasha writes "There's an excellent article that originated on the LA Times and was syndicated to Yahoo News about DDoS attacks on online gaming and one of the solutions out there. Since when did ISP null routes go out of style?" We've run a number of previous stories about DoS blackmail attempts, like this one or this one.

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Except that I got FIRST POST!!!

    -DT

  2. Weeeeeee by lakiolen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...eeeeeeeeeeeee

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    What are you expecting to find here?
  3. I'm sure YOU'D know about it, huh, michael? by Greg+Lake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would it be that hard to email site owners a few hours in advance before each story runs? Slashdot stories are often already days late, so I don't think warning webmasters before the inevitable slashdotting would make much difference. Besides, you could just cache a copy of the page.

    Yeah, yeah, there's all that BS about copyright concerns but it's never been a problem for Google or Coral Cache, has it? Mirroring material on Slashdot would cut out the middle man with virtually no risk of being bitched at for shutting down entire networks. Plus, mirroring content on Slashdot means that there's no chance for a webmaster to do a bait-and-switch with goatse or something like that.

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    Fuck, John Peel is de
  4. Ah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I see ./ editors acknowledge dupes in their post now ;)