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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. Re:I try and try.. by Zooka · · Score: 5, Informative

    "This is pure BS. Poeple who try to lump Gambling in with true addictions such as drugs and smoking are simply wrong. There is no physical addiction with gambling. You won't go through withdrawl if...."

    Your understanding of "addiction" is lacking. While physical dependency on a substance is indeed not the 'exact same thing' as an uncontrollable psychological compulsion, they both CORRECTLY fall under the same general definition of "addiction".

    In other words, your opinion that physical addiction is the only "true addiction"... is simply wrong.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction