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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.
Are they sure it wasn't just an old-fashioned slashdotting?
Quintus malus puer est.
Real poetic justic would have been to DDoS them with SCO Linux-running zombies controlled by Red Hat, SuSe, etc. masters. However, this planned would fail as the 42 boxes worldwide running SCO Linux don't have nearly enough bandwidth.
Just goes to show that the power of the people will always show through, some how.
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.
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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
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.
(btw, the above was supposed to be a joke, mister humor-impaired-FBI-agent)