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Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations. [24 Jan 2008]
Online casinos 'failing customers'
News The UK online gambling industry is ignoring customer enquiries and failing to offer adequate customer service, new research has found. Out of the 100 UK online gambling sites contacted by customer services company Talisma, only 60 per cent replied... [27 Nov 2006]
Mobile porn at risk of DoS attacks, says Gartner
News Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or gambling-related internet content for mobile phones may face the same extortion attacks that have plagued online providers, according to analyst group Gartner. [25 Oct 2005]
5 years ago... Clinton holds hacker war talks
News Just last year organised crime gangs were behind a spate of denial-of-service blackmail attacks on UK online betting and gambling sites 15.02.2000: US President Bill Clinton is meeting with executives from 20 internet companies today as the crisis... [15 Feb 2005]
"Embarrassed" firms paying off DDoS extortion demands
News Every online gambling site is paying extortion," Paller claimed. A spokesman for at least one prominent UK gambling site said that he would rather not comment on the whole issue. Hackers use DDoS [denial-of-service] attacks using botnets to do it. [11 Oct 2004]
Betfair claims Java better than Microsoft .Net
News UK online gambling exchange Betfair has chosen to base a major website overhaul around Sun's J2EE platform rather than Microsoft's .Net software, claiming the Java product comes with a "proven enterprise track record". [10 Sep 2004]
Extortion scams 'heading your way'
News Thomas said the attacks, which were originally aimed largely at gambling sites, are starting to target other businesses. Extortion scams threatening distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against sites that don't pay a ransom fee are becoming... [21 Apr 2004]
Cyber gangs hold companies to ransom
News He said among the sites targeted previously include internet gambling sites. The most common and effective ploy being used by these criminals is the threat of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which can take down a site by bombarding... [12 Nov 2003]
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