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SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-boy-come-again dept.

FreeLinux writes "With not much SCO news today, it seemed that this story was needed - Reuters is reporting that, SCO is again suffering under a DDoS attack that has crippled their web site and email system since Wednesday morning. For the third time this year, the SCO Group's Web site came under attack, apparently by hackers unhappy with the company's legal threats against users of the Linux operating system. The denial-of-service attack started at 6:20 a.m. EST Wednesday and continued through the day, said Blake Stowell, spokesman for the Lindon-based company."

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  1. Re:Come on guys... by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hell, *I* use Linux and dislike SCO, but this is just a tad unprofessional. OK, I'm kinda disgusted by this behavior - it destroys a moral "high ground" that might be useful to have shortly.

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  2. Re:Come on guys... by Stefman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think that DDoS and cracking is the solution, but unfortunately, the law is not always helpful either.

    Look at what the use of the law did for the abuse of monopoly power by MS. It was a slap on the wrist for MS and their continued monopolistic practices.

  3. Editors, please RTFA by stwrtpj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article header:

    For the third time this year, the SCO Group's Web site came under attack, apparently by hackers unhappy with the company's legal threats against users of the Linux operating system.

    Where in the article did it say this? I certainly can't find it.

    Slashdot editors might want to RTFA before approving a post. The submitter of this one got a wee bit overzealous.

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  4. Re:It's not even a very good hoax by gvc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SCO's press release served its purpose. Search Google News for "SCO" and you will see headlines like "SCO attacked by Linux folk." The real news - that SCO lost in court and that SCO's financials are starting to smell - is completely pushed aside by the DOS headlines.

  5. suspect by sydlexic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is highly suspect that a company who's web site was felled by an ancient and easily defended 'attack' was able to so expertly and swiftly identify the cause in time to write up and distribute a press release before the close of business.

  6. It is a crock of shit and it stinks. by mcleodnine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been folowing this story all day and the last thing I expected to see on /. was a regurgitation of "facts" with a 'questionable heritage'.

    Several sites (groklaw, lwn) have already pointed out that the claims of being hacked should be viewed with a liberal ointment of skepticism for any of the following reasons;

    • SCO was full of shit on the last DDoS 'attack'
    • SYN flood? Are you bullshitting me? A corporate firewall that can't handle something as old as that? Was it a high volume attack?
    • Funny that every other network server on the same subnet was still available (ie: ftp.sco.com)
    • my personal favorite "and corporate operational traffic to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations" - corporate intranet down from a DDoS?. If that means that employees can't surf jobs.com because they get ported through the same address space as their http server then I guess the GNU.Linux community has little to worry about. Anybody that dim couldn't possibly find their way to court let alone be the plaintiff in a three billin dollar lawsuit.
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  7. double bluff? by another_twilight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Careful.

    There is a decent chance that their claims are designed to inflame.

    Claim the Open Source community is behind it and you get a bunch of people who have already been accused starting to think they may as well commit the 'crime' for which they are being blamed.

    Sure the claims made by SCO have always been seen to be ridiculous, from a technical POV. But their point has never been to convince the geeks. They are playing to a larger audience and seen in that light their bumbling and fumbling, technically, starts to look a little more deliberate.

    Call me paranoid, but SCO could be trying to create the incident they claim is ocurring right now.

  8. Edit on main page by Zeppelingb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we get an edit for the groklaw link on the mainpage? Anyone who just skims the headlines is going to get a very skewed impression of todays events.