1. Why is it necessary to jump through this new hoop to log in to WIS?

2. Why doesn't it work? (At least not in Google Chrome; I had to log in via another browser.)

3. Why has the "stay logged in" feature never worked since the merger with the gambling site?

Ticket sent. I assume I'm not the only one encountering this issue?

Got a response within minutes:

There's been an attempted DDoS attack on our network, so as a security measure, we're temporarily requiring people to verify identity with the pictures. Due to heavy activity of this attack, there may be temporary issues logging in.

What is DDoS?

A lot more common on competitive video games like Call of Duty or Halo. I’m surprised it made it here.

What's the second "D" stand for then?

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.^[1]

In a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single source.

is our credit card info secure ?

i don think they keep that information



it is irritating to have to log in, check the I am not a robot box, then log in again

Posted by dino27 on 3/16/2019 8:44:00 PM (view original):
is our credit card info secure ?

That’s something completely different.

That would require getting into the database.

a DDos is using other computers to send so many packets of info unto this website, that it gets overloaded and goes down.

yes but someone might be doing both.