http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27026 By Tony Dennis 18 October 2005 ALTHOUGH THEY don't like to admit it, online gambling companies are frequently the victims of denial of service attacks. And, since they can lose significant amounts of revenue during such events, this opens them up to blackmail from hackers. Naturally, such companies have deployed state-of-the-art firewalls and intrusion protection systems. However, one such operator - Bet365 - has found a new weapon. Namely real-time packet analysis. The technology has been developed to enable the typical corporate network management to discover why a LAN is slowing down and who or what is causing it. Bet386 has acquired this technology from network analysis specialists, WildPackets. The software was originally developed for Mac based networks. The main point about Wildpackets' Omni software is that it looks directly at the actual data rather than merely counting the packets. So, if a server suddenly experiences a sudden surge in traffic, Omni can pinpoint exactly where it is coming from and block the offending user/port. It's not exactly the kind of application Wildpackets had in mind but at least it now has a very happy customer. µ _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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