Gambling On line attracts Eastern European hackers


Like any online industry, gambling online attracts a fair amount of attention from criminal elements that target them for 'protection' money. Many of these criminals operate from Eastern Europe and Brazil and employ 'denial of service' attacks to get gambling online sites to cough up money-in effect blackmailing these money-spinning concerns. Denial of service attacks involve overloading lucrative gambling online sites' servers with traffic-blocking legitimate online gamers out. The good news for those going gambling online at targeted sites though is that these attacks don't actually hack into member databases, and the criminals are not after client information.