http://jamesoff.net/site/2006/05/04/uh-oh/ you heard Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://jamesoff.net/site/2006/05/04/uh-oh/comment-page-1/#comment-1410 Legooolas Mon, 08 May 2006 21:39:18 +0000 http://jamesoff.net/site/2006/05/04/uh-oh/#comment-1410 <p>I was just reading about how an online betting company "protects" themself against DDoS after an extortion attempt, by paying $50,000 a year to a security company who have to have more bandwidth than the combination of attackers and does lovely filtering for you so you don't see the traffic. This seems a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut approach, but what else can be done about it (DDoS attacks) at the moment? :(</p> I was just reading about how an online betting company “protects” themself against DDoS after an extortion attempt, by paying $50,000 a year to a security company who have to have more bandwidth than the combination of attackers and does lovely filtering for you so you don’t see the traffic. This seems a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut approach, but what else can be done about it (DDoS attacks) at the moment? :(

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