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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.

  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. 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.