Online Casino Gambling News - by Gamblers Lodge

You may have heard recent news about cyber extortionists extorting online casino sportsbooks and gambling establishments across the internet, and how a recent group of such cyber-thugs were caught in Ukraine for carrying out a large bulk of these attacks.

Now, thanks to high-tech cyber security experts like Prolexic, these criminal networks may be coming to an end. However, despite the technology many online casino operators are still worried with the number of threats beginning to pile up and the looming Super Bowl.

One such online gambling destination is BetCRIS, which expects to receive some 50,000 bets for the Super Bowl. But with threats demanding $40,000 many casino operators are giving up and paying up in order to insure their traffic will not be impeded, or in this case brought to a stand-still.

This is where companies like Prolexic come in. Using giant data centers that are actually not attached to the website itself, all traffic is redirected and inspected by filters designed to catch irregularities in website traffic. These irregularities are not to difficult to look for, being that these attacks are giant surges of hits from thousands of "zombie" computers infected with spyware and viruses that encode the computers to bombard a website all at one time.

Already the system has brought some Ukrainian hackers to justice, and helped BetCRIS go back online after a potential meltdown Thanksgiving weekend. No more should an online casino give up so easy as to pay up to extortionists threatening their soon-to-be outdated technology.