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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. How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How does this virus/trojan get on our PCS any way?...Automatically via internet or something?

    -BlinX

  2. Re:NAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    no it would not help at all. it would break the internet. enforcement = bad.

    what would help is if OS writers didnt make ghey software, and users had braincells that would stop fighting long enough to make the right decision about clicking "ok" or "cancel".

    you want to see an ISP doing the right thing? look at AOL, bundling and supporting antivirus. who woulda thunkit?

  3. Re:Hackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not always a bunch of script kiddies, Russian mafia is consistently trying to DDoS sites that make a lot of money. Typically, they want a relatively "low" amount such as $10 k and I know that some sites have paid this, especially in a busy season when they're making lots of money. Obviously, paying means that you'll be hit again next time.. And it's not only the gambling sites, also regular financial service providers and other ecommerce sites are subject to these criminal acts.

  4. Re:I try and try.. by DrMrLordX · · Score: 0, Troll

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA, God trumps . . . er . . . wait, nevermind!