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Online Gaming Sites Attacked by Botnets

Vin Narayanan writes on Casino City Times:

Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) wreaked havoc at online gaming sites earlier this week. Full Tilt Poker, Titan Poker, Virgin Games and Party Poker were among the sites attacked by a web-based botnet, according to the Shadowserver Foundation, a watchdog group of security professionals that gathers, tracks, and reports on malware, botnet activity, and electronic fraud. Some e-commerce sites were also attacked.

The full impact of these attacks is not immediately clear. Full Tilt Poker's Web site was inaccessible for parts of Sunday and Monday. And Full Tilt had to "pause" the final table of the FTOPS VII Main Event for a brief period with just three players remaining when its client lost connectivity with the Full Tilt servers.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2008 11:19:00 PM