DDoS attack disrupts Swedish poker event

November 7, 2014

Svenska Spel, the organiser of the 2014 Swedish Masters online poker tournament, was compelled to cancel the first event of the tournament and refund 1,451 players due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault this week. A spokesperson for Svenska Spel told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that the company had suffered a number of […]

Bitcoin online poker site has a tough time with hackers

February 11, 2014

The Bitcoin-friendly online poker site SealsWithClubs was launched in August 2011 as one of the pioneering sites accepting the virtual currency, and it’s had more than its fair share of attacks by password hackers and distributed denial of services (DDoS) crooks. However, chief exec Bryan Micon says that the hassles have ultimately been to the […]