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SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again
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."
...Because this really makes the Linux community look like upstanding citizens.
Well, this IS America, where a small group of undesirables can spoil it for everyone.
... do we have to say that this is exactly the kind of thing that we DON'T need? DDoSing them because you are unhappy with the way that they are doing things does nothing but to put a bad name on Linux, its users, and the whole issue in general. All you are doing is sinking to their level, rather than being mature and letting the battle be fought the way it should be, in court ( or, if worse come to worse, with torches and pitchforks in front of SCOs headquarters ;) ).
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Really this kind of attack may seem funny but it doesn't really help the generally uninformed public get a good idea of the average Linux user. These kinds of attacks make us seem like a bunch of evil troublemaking teenage hackers. I thought most linux users were working towards a larger public acceptance of open source software.
Celebrities are like ads, if we all ignore them, they'll just go away.
"The attack caused the company's Web site (http://www.sco.com) and corporate operational traffic to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations,"
Can someone explain to me how the email (internal mailservers I'm guessing), intranet are effecting by a D/DoS?
You have a public webserver in your DMZ that has a public IP address (or share's one)..
EVERYTHING else should be behind firewall, router, big man w/ gun...
How in the holy hell love of GOD is there INTERNAL network effected by an outwardly created SYN flood?
Either they have horribly a misconfigured/monkey created network or their PR shoved his foot in his mouth...
Either way someone should get fired....