The July 4th holiday weekend is usually filled with hotdogs, fireworks, and some apple pie. But a DDoS attack? What asshat does that? Well, an Internet hacker is who. And one decided to attack four New Jersey online casinos to celebrate. The attack occurred for only 30 minutes but shut down the four sites and demanded a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin or an even worse attack would take place. The Director of the Gaming Enforcement Division in New Jersey, David Rebuck, has released information on the recent attack earlier this week. The attack took place on Thursday and…

Bitcoin sportsbook BitBook.biz has been offline for most of the day due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack. BitBook.biz acknowledged the attack on popular Bitcoin discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. SBR users are also discussing the outage in the Players Talk section of the SBR posting Forum. Users are also discussing the downtime at Reddit. BitBook.biz regarding the DDoS attack: “BitBook has been hit with a large DDoS attack that knocked out parts of our hosting provider’s data center. We are working with our hosting provider on restoring our service.” Online sportsbooks are often the target of web based attacks. DDoS…