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SCO DOS'ed
Thomas Cort writes "BusinessWeek has an article 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 Blake Stowell ... the Utah-based company has incurred the wrath of many Linux enthusiasts infuriated with its lawsuit against IBM ... SCO's Internet service provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1 data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack.""
Shocked! Shocked, I am! I am absolutely amazed it took THIS LONG for that to actually happen.
I remember thinking "they're gonna get hacked, DOSed and generally trashed" about 10 seconds into the *original* article.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
The funny thing is, I'm willing to bet money the zombies were all windows boxes. Although poetic justice would be to DDoS them with Unix boxes.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Are they sure it wasn't just an old-fashioned slashdotting?
Quintus malus puer est.
Er, that's 3 words... ;)
Im betting it was all the dupes that finally brought the house down.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
"It will be like taking candy from a baby... hey, that sounds like a lark - let's try it right now!" - Mr Burns (aka the new CEO of SCO) talking about the IBM Lawsuit.
This is another lie by the American press! SCO was not DOS'd. Infact, we today DOS'd over 50 linux websites. Let the linux infidels come, there will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done.
Mohammed al-Sahaf (now the SCO press minister)
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
yeah, I totally agree. What would be far more matured is a defaced sco website that says "SCO SUXX0RZ L1NUX R0XX0RZ!" and then at the bottom of the page it said "nanny nanny boo boo! You smell like doo doo!"
That's how Miss Manners would handle this.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Freaks rejected by society engage in a shocking attack against an authority figure, thereby justifying attacks against those freaks.
Just great, now SCO will get all Stryker on Linux's ass, just what we need.
- jon
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX
http://www.caldera.com/ Nothing like a Slashdotting during a DDoS attack.
Just goes to show that the power of the people will always show through, some how.
"It was the second-largest onslaught ViaWest had experienced, according to SCO."
The first being the Slashdotting they got?
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
Only SCO has the technical know-how to develop DOS software, and to carry it out.
The open source community just isn't capable of developing such techniques, despite published papers being available for years on the topic of DOS attacks.
IBM must have helped them.
This took WAY TOO LONG. For the non-hacker, how can you help?
If you want to help out in a DDOS attack, but you don't have the skills to engineer such a thing, then you should consider using these products.
Like what I said? You might like my music
This was just the first step taken by the RIAA's cyberwar attack. Looks like somebody had an mp3 on their server.... ;)
The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. - Tom Bradley
I mean SCO seems allright now. And besides I can't imagine that anyone would stoop so low as to deliberatly overload their servers. Besides just look at their site. Which is running so well as I look at it now. It would truly be a shame if their servers happended to get ./ed, wouldn't it?
I stole this Sig
Maybe the RIAA are DDOSing them. Maybe SCO has some of them p2p users on their network. You can't hide from the might RIAA.
In other news, SCO plans to sue its own OpenLinux division for possibly abusing access to UNIX trade secrets. SCO issued a press release stating that there was "substantial evidence" that their Linux group had used proprietary UNIX code in the Linux kernel and OpenLinux operating system, though the press release then stated, "but we don't have it with us."
Signature.
I was going to say that too, but I see you've already done it and been marked redundant, so... erm... I'm not saying it!
Daniel
Carpe Diem
138 zombies? I doubt they have as many clients left.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
good point
;-P
alright, fuck the rich
burn them all
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Maybe this was just SCO's DDoS'd themselve. They may be trying to get some 'good' press.
(btw, the above was supposed to be a joke, mister humor-impaired-FBI-agent)
How about a beowulf cluster of lawsuits?
You really don't want to get involved with those Linux hooligans. Do anything they don't like and they'll attack your systems.
So buy Microsoft. Because we never get attacked!*
* exceptions include Nimda, CodeRed, Slammer, VB-scripts, MSWord macros, I love you, trojans, haxors, script kiddies, anyone with a degree in computer science, that guy in your class with the messy hair and your grandmother.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
Sadly, nothing further will be heard from the Anti-Stupidity league, as their next action at this point will evidently be to DDoS themselves.
What else are we going to use the Internet's bandwidth for? It's either DDOS attacks against lame companies or downloading porn and pirated MP3s and movies. Sometimes we need to take a break from porn. My hand hurts, so it's DDOS time baby!
I'm ashamed that SCO is from the great state Utah
There Is No DoS Attack. The Infidels are running scared behind their dial up aol accounts....
-Cnik
Oh, 'Lose', Not 'Loose', where are you in our darkest hour???!
It was a Distributed Recursive Denial Of Service.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Hey, thats our DDoS code you used! wait... nevermind...
How can I volunteer my CPU cycles and bandwidth for this distributed computing project?
Nothing to see here; Move along.
We, the members of the Anti-Stupidity League, have launched this distributed denial-of-service attack on the Santa Cruz Organization.
The name of the company is Santa Cruz Operation. Please correct your statement, otherwise you may look.. well... stupid!
Sigged!