Sunday, 30 November 2025

Gaming communities provide fertile ground for DrDoS attacks against financial services, fellow players

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services has detailed the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities. The DDoS attacks, which can pack a powerful punch by the use of reflection and amplification (DrDoS) techniques, have been used against other gamers, gaming platforms and even third party targets such as financial services and other non-gaming businesses.

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This notification is possibly the first major breach made visible under the new tough EU Telecoms rules on data privacy.

The data stolen includes “names, addresses, birth date, gender, bank sort code and bank account numbers for approximately 2 million applications from individuals seeking to sign up with Vodafone Germany”. The key word here is seeking to sign up. This is likely the web applications where customers fill out forms, send in credit and bank details for verifying identity. Ironically, while this streamlines a business process to get a new customer a phone, its perfect data to commit Identity theft.

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India’s Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police Department has selected Steria to help improve the efficiency of its Emergency Response System, which serves 3.5 million citizens in the city of Kanpur. Steria will provide a variety of support, integration and IT services that will enable the police to make faster and smarter decisions on how it uses resources to respond to emergencies.

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MILPITAS, Calif: Sigma Designs, a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, control, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, is to launch its new chipset SMP8734 at IBC 2013 in Amsterdam (13-17 September 2013). Combining a high performance ARM A9 CPU with an Imagination SGX GPU, the SMP8734 will enable a new level of user experience with minimal extra cost.

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