Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals 28
carusoj writes "An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May, according to police. The escalation began with a distributed denial-of-service attack on a domain registrar that serves many small gaming companies. While the national scale of the effects was unusual, such attacks are common among some small Internet businesses competing to draw customers in China, security researchers say. Police have arrested four people involved in the attack."
eh? (Score:5, Funny)
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Anyone else get confused with the word "game boss" in the title? I started to think about Yogg Sauron DDosing people.
Yep. But here's http://forum.sdlive.ru/ [sdlive.ru] much more information.
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1P (Insert Coins) 2P (Insert Coins)
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After performing market research, and factoring in inflation, your post has been updated to reflect the sad reality:
1P (Insert First Born) 2P (Insert First Born)
That's what it seems like to me, personally...
Happens all the time in China (Score:4, Insightful)
The only notable deviation is that the perps were "detained" in this case and the disruption was large enough that it got some unwanted attention.
Translation: The government cronies paid off by the "detained" individuals had less power than the government officials paid off by people inconvenienced by the DDOS attack.
It wouldn't have made the news at all except the bumbling "hackers" and the bag man (who rented the servers) managed to let their private commercial dispute disrupt DNS services in a couple of provinces. These bag men are just proxies for people in positions of power in the government who are profiting by skimming profits from these illegal servers.
*shrug*
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Certainly reinforces my view that China is, for business purposes, still the wild fucking west. The Chinese also have an odd sense of fairness compared to elsewhere, a neurotic desire to save face by denying any wrong doing even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and an astounding ability to rationalize truly horrendous acts if the benefit from them.
Yes, there's plenty they do well that other countries would benefit from emulating, but the trade off is a truly cut throat view of business and social inter
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But at least business in ther countries know that what they are doing is unethical: they just fail to care. Chinese on the other hand see these actions as being completely normal.
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The hacker community as presented in China by the government of China, aren't necessarily the back yarders that the government of China likes to pretend that they are. With the extensive corruption, a lot of those hackers are paid professionals and, often government agents. This is going to get really out of hand, there will be some interesting political shenanigans going on as technology is used more and more in their political manoeuvrings, disconnections, source private information for leverage, disrupt
rough business (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone sending out attacks against rivals to the point that some find it difficult to afford to operate their business. Maybe if all the rivals could be civil they wouldn't have to waste money attacking one another and could instead use the money to grow their business or just keep the money as extra profit. Ultimately it is the customers that suffer because no matter which of these little businesses they try to use the service is going to suck. What ever happen to spending money on better advertising? I thought it was only American cable companies that felt it necessary to sabotage the competition.
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Maintaining regional monopolies through government lobbying is the most aggressive form of anti-competitive behavior.
Why? (Score:2)
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I mean, is it really worth it? Isn't this the kind of behavior in China that earns you a bullet in the back of the head?
Depends on who you bribe and who you piss off.
Warcraft (Score:3, Funny)
Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals
All is faire in love and Warcraft.
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This would have made a great "metagame" for the Matrix online or some similar cyberpunk style MMO.
Ping flood the n00bs!
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But if this becomes a habit, it'll be the end of the world
of Warcraft
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