ABSTRACT
Computers, information technologies, and high-speed telecommunication systems have created a new form of space that is borderless and disembodied. Cybernetic communities, e-shopping malls, digital courtrooms, virtual health clinics, e-love networks, online banking services, and gambling Web sites now permit people to accomplish conventional tasks with few spatial-temporal limits. The World Wide Web is akin to a massive library. The extortion of gambling sites usually commenced with computer viruses that were installed on personal computers without the owner's knowledge. Ddos attacks were deliberately coordinated techniques that struck their victims from all directions, using sustainable pulsing forces that were both proximate and distant. The extortion enterprises almost always involved a division of labor containing organizers, extenders, and executors. Even though hacking was sometimes an exercise in showboating for fun and status capital accumulation, not revenge, notoriety or politics was the primary rationale behind cyber-extortion of gambling sites.
