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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."'"
And then get to see the out dated WSJ articles!
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Gambeling sites are fast becoming the cancer of the web just as SPAM has become the cancer of the inbox. Even my personal site, perhaps the least relevant bit of web real-estate out there, has become a target for gambeling advertisers. I've written and installed filters, I've systematicly deleted blog comments from spammers, and yet they still try to plaster my humble and non-indexed blog with their advertising refuse.
I've started collecting "bad words," URLs that correspond to blog spammer posts - every single one of which comes from a gambeling site. At present the count is up to 2205 blocked unique URLs.
I know it's not just the gambeling sites, but since they're the only ones I've encountered thus far, I'll blame them for now.
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No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.
I coallated all the dupes into one!
Churchill definitely had some of the best quotes in history.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken