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Gambling Sites Battle DDoS Attacks

Posted by michael on from the aces-over-eights dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "Gambling sites are fighting back against extortion from hackers using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to the report released by the BBC many of these attacks are coming from infected home PCs which have succumbed to a worm or virus. The gambling sites are bringing in reinforcements: Pipex, Cisco and security firm Energis are creating 'intelligent' traffic monitoring systems to help stop these attacks."

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  1. Great Idea by IInventedTheInternet · · Score: 5, Funny


    A moment of silence for the kneecaps of the virus writers if/when discovered.

    1. Re:Great Idea by bsharitt · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, the people behind online gambling are more devious than that. They'll use hundreds of bots to spam the virus writers websites with gambling related links.

    2. Re:Great Idea by Hinhule · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh yeah, breaking their knees wouldn't make them even harder to break your business.

      Crushing their hands on the other hand might have some effect on their l337 H4x0rZ abilities.

  2. Re:I try and try.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, you just set variable Two wrongs equal to right. You just turned morality on its head.

  3. Re:NAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, yeah. That'd be great. Instead of having to squeeze the public services I want behind a single IP, I'd just be screwed. That's a real step up.

    Encouraged? Sure. Forced? I like having my open static IP, thanks.

    When you walk into a club, I bet all the girls say "HAY! ITS THAT GUY. YOU KNOW, THE GUY WITH THE STATIC IP! HOLLA!"

  4. online poker by davids-world.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    How sad.

    I fear this 'online poker' guy is getting attacked, too, in which case we would miss out on all the great spam comments in our blogs. Wouldn't that be a sad, sad world?

  5. Re:I try and try.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    some people run responsible gambling sites

    Oh please. Let me rephrase that...

    some people exploit the weak and stupid responsibly

  6. Re:I try and try.. by aichpvee · · Score: 1, Funny

    mmmmmmmmm.... desserts...

    --
    The Farewell Tour II
  7. Re:I try and try.. by geminidomino · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forget the #1 Rule of Republicans:

    If you have enough money, you trump God.

  8. Zzz's Casino by offpath3 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You can see them going alphabetically through the list with the gambling sites, trying one after another.

    We here at Zzz's Casino guarantee no interuption to our service due to DDoS attacks.

  9. Good job, Virus Writers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now when they learn how to hack into
    their cement shoes under 100 feet of water,
    I'll be even more impressed!