Monday, September 10, 2001

Hackers and others win big in Net casino attacks http://news.excite.com/news/r/010910/11/net-tech-gambling-hacking-dc [The article is on risks in on-line gambling, and particularly CryptoLogic, Inc., a Canadian on-line casino games developer that has been hacked. One of their sites had been "fixed" so that craps and video slot players could not lose, with winnings totalling $1.9 million. Every dice throw turned up doubles, and every slot spin generated a perfect match. Whether it was an insider attack or a penetration is not clear from the article. (We noted the likelihood of hacking of Internet gambling sites in RISKS-19.27, 1 Aug 1997, not to mention my 1995 April Fool's piece in RISKS-17.02.) Interesting question: which laws against hacking will apply to subversions of illegal Internet gambling parlors? Who gets to prosecute remote attacks on off-shore operations? PGN-ed] [Ken Nitz via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 67] 0:00 # G!