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Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals
carusoj writes "An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May, according to police. The escalation began with a distributed denial-of-service attack on a domain registrar that serves many small gaming companies. While the national scale of the effects was unusual, such attacks are common among some small Internet businesses competing to draw customers in China, security researchers say. Police have arrested four people involved in the attack."
Anyone else get confused with the word "game boss" in the title? I started to think about Yogg Sauron DDosing people.
Everyone sending out attacks against rivals to the point that some find it difficult to afford to operate their business. Maybe if all the rivals could be civil they wouldn't have to waste money attacking one another and could instead use the money to grow their business or just keep the money as extra profit. Ultimately it is the customers that suffer because no matter which of these little businesses they try to use the service is going to suck. What ever happen to spending money on better advertising? I thought it was only American cable companies that felt it necessary to sabotage the competition.
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Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals
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