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Hackers cut off SCO Web site
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:47:46 -0400
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:42:09 -0400 From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Subject: FW: Hackers cut off SCO Web site To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> X-Organization: INFOWARRIOR.ORG X-Copyright: (c) 2003 by Author. Other rights reserved as necessary. As an IT security professional but also someone who thinks the SCO-World case is loonier than Franken-Fox, I'm not sure whether to smirk with satisfaction or offer to help find the perpetrator.... -rf ------ Forwarded Message Hackers cut off SCO Web site By Martin LaMonica Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 25, 2003, 1:07 PM PT This weekend, a denial-of-service attack took down the Web site of The SCO Group, which is caught in an increasingly acrimonious row with the open-source community over the company's legal campaign against Linux. SCO's Web site was largely out of commission until Monday morning, a representative of the Lindon, Utah-based Unix and Linux seller said Monday. Performance measurement statistics from Netcraft indicated that the site had been down since Friday night. In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a network that the targeted system slows to a crawl while trying to keep up with the traffic it's receiving. The SCO representative could not say where this weekend's strike originated. However, unofficial open-source spokesman Eric Raymond suggested in a posting Sunday to open-source news Web site NewsForge that the attack was launched by someone angry at comments from SCO executives criticizing the open-source community's role in the legal battles over Linux. < snip > http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067743.html?tag=fd_top
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