Unfortunately they are here to stay. Once they got the first dollar then all books will have to defeat them, you don't give up a money source without a fight. Whether or not a book was right or wrong doing it is besides the point, they are here and part of the industry now. To believe otherwise is foolish.
As I requested in the Comment on the Prescription forum, I wish somebody would do a story on what is the No. 1 issue in the offshore gambling industry. If hackers were shutting down Vegas books, it would be front-page news. Why aren't these guys getting caught? Is anyone going after them, or is up to Costa Rican authorities? If they can shut down web sites, what prevents them from hacking into each of our accounts? It seems this is an issue that is being hushed up by the books.
Lbk - what I know about computers doesn't extend far past off, on and enter. The bottom line is they make these books inoperable over the internet if they do not pay them. As far as how they do it and all that I am not up on the specifics. All I hear is they are very very sharp and have a lot of money behind them. Potent combination.
Arnie - I believe they are not "hacking" the system as much as they overwhelming these sites. Also I am told the player information and stuff is kept seperate even if these places got hacked. I can't verify that or even say for sure it's true but to date the hackers are after the money, not information. Much easier to shut down a site than it is to hack information I would assume. It is pretty common knowledge they read this site so most books are tightlipped about what they are doing. Anyway if anyone has more information feel free to chime in.
Arnie - I believe they are not "hacking" the system as much as they overwhelming these sites. Also I am told the player information and stuff is kept seperate even if these places got hacked. I can't verify that or even say for sure it's true but to date the hackers are after the money, not information. Much easier to shut down a site than it is to hack information I would assume. It is pretty common knowledge they read this site so most books are tightlipped about what they are doing. Anyway if anyone has more information feel free to chime in.
DDoS attacks are very easy to setup. I could show you in 5 minutes how to do it. It takes a few days/weeks for you to infect enough computers to act as pawns in your DoS attack depending on the size of your attack.
The basic premise is this. Scan the internet for vulnerabilities. Infect vulnerable computers with a trojan that scans the internet. Repeat. Exponential growth. These infected computers are known as "bots".
The trojan is one that is able to receive instructions (a variety of ways depending on how you set it up, such as getting info from an anonymous IRC channel) and execute it.
When you have enough bots at your disposal, go ahead and execute any command you want. You can target the web server itself, the router, the upstream ISP, etc.
The basic premise is this. Scan the internet for vulnerabilities. Infect vulnerable computers with a trojan that scans the internet. Repeat. Exponential growth. These infected computers are known as "bots".
The trojan is one that is able to receive instructions (a variety of ways depending on how you set it up, such as getting info from an anonymous IRC channel) and execute it.
When you have enough bots at your disposal, go ahead and execute any command you want. You can target the web server itself, the router, the upstream ISP, etc.
