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RioRey™ Press Releases
October 15, 2007
CREDITZ® Digital Currency Announces Alliance with RioRey
May 24, 2007 - ISP-Planet
The Box That Stops Floods
March 15, 2007
RioRey will debut its new product line, the RX Series, at the Data Center World Convention later this month
January 25, 2007
RioRey released the NI Series Version 3.0.0 platform
DDOS News
DDOS Attacks. What no one is talking about :: Nov 18, 2007 - PBS
DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service taking out entire networks in Commercial and Government enterprise IT networks costing millions dollars in only a few hours. It is considered a new tool for terrorists and organized cybercrime.
When Bots Attack :: September 15, 2007 - Wired
"If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. Using rented botnets, you can launch hundreds of thousands — even millions — of infobombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability." Read More...
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime :: June 13, 2007 - fbi.gov
"Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST is a national initiative and ongoing investigations have identified over 1 million victim computer IP addresses. The FBI is working with our industry partners, including the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity." Read More...
DDOS Knocks Antispam Sites Offline :: June 11, 2007 - PC World
"Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline, according to the SANS Institute." Read More...
Cyberwarfare worries :: June 2, 2007 - The Washington Times
"Estonia fell prey last month to what is being called the first cyberwar. Beginning at the end of April, the small Baltic state faced an unprecedented cyberattack that immobilized much of the country's digital infrastructure, closing government and financial Web sites, e-mail servers and other Internet services. The worst appears to be over, but officials have much to learn from this very real example of cyberwarfare." Read More...
Estonian DDoS attacks unlikely' in U.S., says expert :: May 30, 2007 - SC Magazine
"Could U.S.-based organizations find themselves defending against the level of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks Estonian web servers have seen since early April? While saying there is no shortage of people with grudges against the U.S., a researcher at Arbor Networks' ASERT team said that it is an unlikely scenario." Read More...
Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia :: May 24, 2007 - New York Times
"When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent." Read More...
Estonian Attacks Raise Concern Over Cyber 'Nuclear Winter :: May 24, 2007 - InformationWeek
"The cyberattacks against Estonia were particularly damaging, as the country had to shut down key computer systems for their own protection." Read More...
Telegraph floored by DDoS attack :: May 23, 2007 - The Register
"The website of UK broadsheet the Daily Telegraph is returning to normal after a sustained denial of service attack left the site intermittently unavailable over the last two days." Read More...