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Taking on an Online Extortionist
An anonymous reader writes "When an online exortionist comes a knocking, threatining a DDoS, do you pay or fight? For many, paying may seem like a sensible option when compared to going out of buisness. CSO Magazine has a riveting article about how an online gambling site and a DDoS specialist teamed up to take on such an extortionist. When everybody else was rolling over and paying, this company risked its very existence to fight back. From the article: '"The attack went to 1.5Gb, with bursts up to 3Gb. It wasn't targeted at one thing. It was going to routers, DNS servers, mail servers, websites. It was like a battlefield, where there's an explosion over here, then over there, then it's quiet, then another explosion somewhere else," says Lyon. "They threw everything they had at us. I was just in shock."'"
Sounds like you're trying to compensate for something with all this macho talk. Do you also have a jacked-up truck to compensate for your small penis?
PAY, although this may damage your ego.
The initial cash demands were a few thousands dollars. Too bad if you have to pay that.
In the end he lost revenue worth many times this amount, including the inital demanded amount EACH YEAR, but excluding revenue losses due to the downtime and lost customers.
I'm not sure if a great story would all be worth that. On the other hand it's nice to finally see a good solution.