Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Chinese scammers have been creating cloned versions of legitimate websites, redirecting visitors to gambling sites.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Scammers Exploit Cloned Websites in Vast Gambling Network
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Experimental result:
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips to test the counterintuitive prediction from a physics model of human coin tossing developed by Persi Diaconis. The model asserts that when people flip an ordinary coin, it tends to land on the same side it started—Diaconis estimated the probability of a same-side outcome to be about 51%.
And the final paragraph:
Could future coin tossers use the same-side bias to their advantage? The magnitude of the observed bias can be illustrated using a betting scenario. If you bet a dollar on the outcome of a coin toss (i.e., paying 1 dollar to enter, and winning either 0 or 2 dollars depending on the outcome) and repeat the bet 1,000 times, knowing the starting position of the coin toss would earn you 19 dollars on average. This is more than the casino advantage for 6 deck blackjack against an optimal-strategy player, where the casino would make 5 dollars on a comparable bet, but less than the casino advantage for single-zero roulette, where the casino would make 27 dollars on average. These considerations lead us to suggest that when coin flips are used for high-stakes decision-making, the starting position of the coin is best concealed…
Security researchers have demonstrated how they were able to exploit a flaw which allowed them to hack the card-shuffling devices used in casinos and poker rooms.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading How to hack casino card-shuffling machines
You can beat the game without a computer:
On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels develop flaws, which turn into patterns. A wheel that’s even marginally tilted could develop what Barnett called a ‘drop zone.’ When the tilt forces the ball to climb a slope, the ball decelerates and falls from the outer rim at the same spot on almost every spin. A similar thing can happen on equipment worn from repeated use, or if a croupier’s hand lotion has left residue, or for a dizzying number of other reasons. A drop zone is the Achilles’ heel of roulette. That morsel of predictability is enough for software to overcome the random skidding and bouncing that happens after the drop.”…
An unknown attacker group is targeting customer service agents at gambling and gaming companies with a new malware effort. Known as IceBreaker, the code is capable of stealing passwords and cookies, exfiltrating files, taking screenshots and running custom VBS scripts. While these are fairly standard functions, what sets IceBreaker apart is its infection vector. Malicious […]
The post New Attack Targets Online Customer Service Channels appeared first on Security Intelligence.
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Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very hard—but this article shows that we probably would have found non-random properties:
…the executives had recently discovered that one of their machines had been hacked by a gang of hustlers. The gang used a hidden video camera to record the workings of the card shuffler through a glass window. The images, transmitted to an accomplice outside in the casino parking lot, were played back in slow motion to figure out the sequence of cards in the deck, which was then communicated back to the gamblers inside. The casino lost millions of dollars before the gang were finally caught…
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Thanks to the unique perspectives we have via the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, we’re able to observe massive amounts of web traffic and data that provide insights across the various industries Akamai serves. In the wake of Super Bowl LV, we’re sharing some observations on gambling traffic and social media activity, two categories that are complementary to the game. We’ll also look at how online viewing has increased over the past 10 years of live streaming the "big game." Continue reading Gambling, Social Media, and 10 Years of Streaming the ‘Big Game’
SBTech, a provider of interactive sports betting solutions and services, has set aside up to $100 million to fix a mess left when a cybersecurity incident hit right in the midst of a merger. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission … Continue reading Gambling Firm Anticipates Spending up to $100 Million in Recovery from Cyber Incident
Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, steer clear! Don’t open if it’s ma… Continue reading New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN
According to a new report, its algorithmic labelling may expose minors to age-inappropriate, targeted advertising. Continue reading Facebook flags thousands of kids as interested in gambling, booze