Hello and Good morning fellow webmasters!
I saw the posting on DoS attacks and had to add my two cents. I am not online a on-line casino and portal owner but I developed one of the first linux intrusion detection systems (as a computer hacker) a while back. I am extremely well known in the computer hacking underground and have written several advirsories and whitepapers on how to project against DoS attacks. I emailed the Professor a few days ago in regards to being able to develop a program that contained linkstate information for all the sites you link to as a webmaster/portal operator. This program would connect to any casino site you linked to and if the site was down during the “data queue” process the linkstate engine would switch to another advertised casino that was still up and functioning without latancy. I have worked in the past as the senior research scientist at Network Associates and assisted in the development of Mcaffee virii scanner so please feel free to email or contact me via the forum if you have questions about these types of attacks. I would really like to plan some sort of sit down with the senior members in order to contact these casinos in order to assist them in their efforts to counter attack these types of situations. Like I emailed Prof. It makes more sense for them to pay a one time consulting fee to someone to fix the situation rather than paying some sort of ridiculous randsom in hopes that they are not targets in the future. This is not the era of the mob and these petty cyber thugs should be no match to this casinos if they have a strongly enforced security policy.