"Polish nationals Piotr Smirnow, 31, and Patryk Surmacki, 35, met the owner of the £30 million ($50 million) turnover business at Heathrow Terminal 5 in July 2013 to demand a 50 percent share of the firm. If the owner failed to agree to these terms, the men threatened to use the services of a computer hacker to launch DDoS attacks on the casino’s servers:" TechWorld
http://news.techworld.com/security/3494516/ddos-blackmailers-branded-playground-bullies-for-attack-on-casino-firm/
What is DDOS? It stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It's one of the most important and common cyber attacks -- the attacker overloads or "floods" the target Web site with thousands of requests at the same time to shut it down. To learn about the DDOS program, DDOS protect options and how to stop DDOS attacks, read below.
DDOS News
Thursday, December 19, 2013
DDOS Extortion: Give Me 50% of Your Company or I'll Take It Down with DDOS Attacks
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