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Online Gambling Companies Need To Work Closer With ISPs on DDoS Threat
 April 20, 2007, 4:48 am (4 years ago)The Chief Technology Officer for the international online betting exchange Betfair, Rorie Devine, actually told a conference in London this week that Distributed Denial of Services attacks was a serious threat, and that the businesses must actually work more closely with the ISP’s so that they can prevent hackers from actually being able to launch successful assaults that are designed to takes sites offline as a basis for criminal extortion.
Devine as also revealed that most of the DDoS attacks were actually caused by the hackers using botnets, which is a large number of compromised computers that were used to send massive amounts of data that resulted in the web servers being overwhelmed. Devine said that in 2000, there were only six botnets in existence and now there are around thirty thousand.
Devine said “China, rather than Eastern Europe seems to be the new center of excellence for botnets”. “And the attacks have got a lot bigger, really!”
The biggest botnet that has been managed to be identified so far as mastered and incredible seventy five thousand compromised hosts and Devine said that the organizations needed layered defenses to actually be able to protect themselves against these such attacks as there was no magic box or device that could undertake the task by itself.
Devine also said “concurrent connections, not bandwidth, are your scarcest resource”. “You need to swim faster than your buddy”.
Marino Zino, addressing the same conference, which is head of managed services at ISP Clara.net said that “DDoS attacks are a very real concern for any business involved in e-commerce or hosting business operations online. By addressing the causes of downtime, businesses can learn how best to conduct commercial activity online and plan for a reliable and secure future”.
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