Hackers cut off SCO Web site

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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
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> 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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