CNET News: 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. PDT, the Unix and Linux seller was hit by a
distributed denial-of-service attack that hampered its Internet
operations, said SCO spokesman Blake Stowell. In a DDoS attack,
numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a
network that the targeted system slows to a crawl trying to keep up
with the traffic it’s receiving.

“Stowell said SCO had no indication who was behind the attack or
why it was launched, but the Utah-based company has incurred the
wrath of many Linux enthusiasts infuriated with its lawsuit against
IBM. SCO seeks more than $1 billion in the suit, which accuses Big
Blue of taking Unix intellectual property to which SCO owns rights,
and moving it into open-source Linux. On Thursday, SCO Chief
Executive Darl McBride said Unix source code had been copied
line-by-line into Linux…”

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