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Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot]
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SCO DOS'ed -- article related to Unix.
News for nerds, stuff that matters
on Sat May 03, 2003 08:38 PM
from the world's-smallest-violin dept.
about a DDoS attack against SCO.
"At 10:45 a.m., the Unix and Linux seller was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that hampered its Internet operations, said SCO spokesman
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Groklaw flooded with information showing SCO story doesn't add up; consensus: probably not attack, SCO description of issue makes no sense, if what they are saying is true SCO then admits gross negligence. Vast forum comments. [Groklaw]
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SCO today confirmed that on 2 May 2003 about 10:00 a.m., it was victimized by large scale, coordinated DoS attack, using 90% of the bandwidth of SCO's ISP. FBI and US Attorney's office are investigating. [Linux Today]
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Several forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]
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President of OSI responds to SCO's DoS claims
[Posted May 7, 2003 by corbet]
Tue, 6 May 2003 23:41:49 -0400
In a press release today, SCO suggests that the Linux community may be
responsible for the denial-of-service attack on its servers that
occurred on Friday, May 2nd.
This is a baseless
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SCO, now suing IBM for infringing its intellectual property, had its website taken offline by a well orchestrated denial-of-service attack. An avalanche of data blocked access to the site for several hours on Friday. [ZDNet UK]
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An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours on Friday, said the company, which has come under fire from Linux...
SCO site suffers DDoS outage
Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours on Friday, said the company, which has come under fire from Linux fans for an ongoing lawsuit against IBM.
At 10:45 a.m., the Unix and Linux seller was
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SCO CEO Darl McBride accuses president of Open Source Initiative, Eric Raymond, and open source community in general, of not doing enough to stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on SCO website. [eWeek]
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SCO CEO Darl McBride took a swing at the open-source community this week, Linux & Open-Source Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports, and Linux luminaries Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens weren't slow to respond.
Linux & Open Source - eWeek
SCO, Open-Source Leaders Trade Barbs
SCO CEO Darl McBride took a swing at the open-source community this week, Linux & Open-Source Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports, and Linux luminaries Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens weren't slow to respond. Hardly a week goes by
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SCO Web site slammed Wednesday by massive distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site fully unreachable for much of day; has been target of several similar attacks in recent months. [eWeek]
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The SCO Group Inc.'s Web site was slammed Wednesday by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site completely unreachable for much of the day.
Linux & Open Source - eWeek
Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline
The SCO Group Inc.'s Web site was slammed Wednesday by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site completely unreachable for much of the day.
The SCO Group Inc. claims that its Web site was the
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack blocks access to site; firm incurred wrath of many Linux fans for its lawsuit against IBM. [CNET News.com]
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A distributed denial-of-service attacks blocks access the Web site of SCO Group, which has incurred the wrath of many Linux fans for its lawsuit against IBM. A CNET article by Stephen Shankland, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on May 2, 2003 4:13 PM PDT.
Net attack crushes SCO Web site
An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours Friday, said the company, which has come under fire from Linux fans for an ongoing lawsuit against IBM.
At 10:45 a.m., the Unix and Linux seller was hit by a distributed
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Day-old denial-of-service attack on Web servers of controversial SCO has expanded to firm's mail and file servers, SCO top network administrator says. [CNET News.com]
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A day-old denial-of-service attack on the Web server of the controversial SCO Group has been expanded to assault the company's mail and file servers, SCO's top network administrator says. A CNET article by Robert Lemos, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on December 11, 2003 3:10 PM PST.
December 11, 2003 3:10 PM PST
Attack on SCO's servers intensifies
A day-old denial-of-service attack on the Web server of the controversial SCO Group has been expanded to assault the company's mail and file servers, SCO's top network administrator said.
The attack, which first hit the company's
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SCO website and file servers are back online, after being hit by denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost 2 days. [ZDNet UK]
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The SCO Group's Web site and file servers are back online, after being
The SCO Group's Web site and file servers are back online, after being
that cut off access for almost two days.
The outage was over by 5 p.m. (PST) on Thursday, according to the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). The attack, which began flooding SCO's network with data
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