Call to arms against cybercrooks

The chief technology officer of online gaming portal Betfair has called for more government and industry cooperation to combat the growing threat of distributed denial-of-service attacks to online businesses. 

In an exclusive interview, David Yu said that DDoS attacks may have only really affected a handful of businesses so far, but any company that relies on the Web to make transactions with customers or partners should be aware of the problem.

"I think, in general, there is a lot more that the e-commerce industry as a whole needs to be aware of. Security threats are not a gaming-related problem--they could easily affect any other e-commerce company, online travel, online books; they could affect health care and government," Yu said.

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Story by Andrew Donoghue