Gamblers and hackers head to Macau

QZ.com – Macau, the Portuguese-influenced region on the southern coast of China is famed for its money-spinning casinos and the UNESCO-listed ruins of a 17th century Catholic cathedral. It also appears to be a recent magnet for hackers. The area’s only internet provider, Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau, or CTM, said in a statement Monday it had “detected high volume of irregular overseas traffic flowing into its DNS Server,” on the evening of Oct. 6, activity generally associated with attempts to break into a server. This attack was repelled by the company’s firewall. CTM wasn’t as fortunate in July, when…