Are online firms doing secret deals with DDoS attackers?

[mandy]

A security expert from IBM has controversially suggested a number of large companies are still "more often than not" paying off cyber criminals threatening them with distributed denial-of-service attacks.

...the DDoS scams, which typically target companies that rely upon peaks of online transactions such as internet bookmakers, are still a major money spinner for the criminals.

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