Lewis Pek Editor
Comment April 2016
It’s been great to tackle full-on a subject about which we’ve given only cursory attention in the past - lotteries. While we have included a lotteries section in every one of our market reports, this enormous sector deserves a much more dedicated approach - and so this issue we begin by looking at some of the major western European lottery markets. To truly understand a gaming market you must consider the impact of every form of gaming within its borders and a clear appreciation of where each lottery product sits within its firmament of gaming options, makes for a fascinating report and one that we’ll be expanding in the near future to add to our global lotteries reach.
In addition to our lotteries focus this month, we have several fascinating Insight stories, starting with a look at the street market in Serbia ahead of the gaming show in Belgrade next month; we study the architectural use of lighting designs and how they have transformed the interior of a casino in Canada; and, perhaps the hardest article to include this month, the opening of Casino Liberte in the Seychelles. There’s nothing like staring at a Manchester skyline in gloom of March while sourcing photography for a Seychelles ‘paradise’ casino opening to make life seem futile.
THE IDEA THAT ONE IN EVERY TWO DDOS ATTACKS IN ONLINE WAGERING IS CARRIED OUT BY A COMPETITOR IS SHOCKING
Thanks also to Mazooma Games and Greentube for their technical patience explaining the details of the novoSDK (software developers kit) for our Interactive article and make sure to read the final Interactive piece this month from MiFinity. ‘Financial impact protection’ might sound like a ‘dry as a bone read,’ but the statistics alone are worth the entry price.
The fact that the online gaming industry is the target of half of the recorded DDoS attacks in the third quarter of 2015 is a frightening statistic. However, the idea that one in every two DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service - electronic attacks involving multiple computers, which send repeated HTTP requests or pings to a server to load it down and render it inaccessible for a period of time) in online wagering is carried out by a competitor, is both shocking and at the same time unsurprising. Why be a ‘mischievous’ hacker when you could be well paid too?
EDITORIAL Editor
Lewis Pek
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Consultant (Germany) John Carroll
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