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 A large-scale denial-of-service attack brought down the software maker's Web site, E-mail system, intranet, and customer-service operations.
By TechWeb News
 SCO Group Inc., which has been the target of intense criticism by open-source groups angry over the company's legal challenge of Linux, was struck Wednesday by a large-scale denial-of-service attack that brought down the software maker's Web site.
No suspects have been identified in the Internet-based assault that began at 4:20 a.m. MST. The company's Web site remained unavailable into Thursday morning.
Besides its Web site, the attack brought down the SCO's E-mail system, corporate intranet, and customer-support operations, the company said.
"SCO is working with law enforcement officials and gathering information through mechanisms that we have in place to help us identify the origin of these attacks," a company spokesman said in a statement. "We deplore these activities by those who try to intimidate or harass legitimate businesses through cyberterrorist tactics while hiding their true identity."
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SCO, which claims to hold the copyright to the Unix operating system, has filed a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM, claiming the company violated its license with SCO by inserting some of its copyrighted code into Linux, the open-source operating system. SCO also has threatened legal action against companies refusing to pay royalties for the use of Linux, and has challenged in court the legality of the general public license governing the use of Linux.
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Re: Attack Fells SCO's Web Site (Score: 1)
by Audioslaved on Thursday, December 11 @ 17:53:26 CET
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.audioslaved.com | This is total Spin, SCO are lying yet again. I suggest everyone who reads this be aware of what SCO is trying to do and read the following article at Groklaw.net, http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614
An admin comment at the bottom of the article with groklaw's article to reference against would be appreciated as many techies and fellow nerds troubleshot the situation and determined how SCO says they were attacked but people were still able to reach servers on the same network devices which also share the same pipe. This is BS, read this article and explanations from people who actually noticed this and took some action, including someone who called the upstream provider which said that there is no DDOS attack going on. Here is the article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614
Groklaw has been a great aide in crushing SCO's PR war. SCO is totally lying and trying to skate and spin their way out of everything. Once you read the actual court documents and learn this case a little more, you to will be swayed from the actual evidence and realize half of the media outlets are acting as SCO's investors and the companies puppets, Don't let some snoddy press release they send out on presswire.com let you form your opinions, If SCO were being DDOS'd wouldn't getting it under control and restoring services take priority over issuing a press release, that's just me. |
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