DoS Attacks (Boycott, Lawsuits)

DoS Attacks Sites:

Hackers Cut off SCO Web Site Hackers Cut off SCO Web Site: Over this weekend, denial-of-service attack downed website of SCO, which is in ever more acrimonious row with open source community over legal campaign against Linux. Netcraft numbers show site down since Friday. [ZDNet CNET News.com] (DoS Attacks) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5067743.html SCO Web Attacks Cease SCO Web Attacks Cease: SCO website and file servers are back online, after being hit by denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost 2 days. [ZDNet UK] (DoS Attacks) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118546,00.htm SCO DOS'ed SCO DOS'ed: Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot] (DoS Attacks) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1729259 SCO Claims Attack Intensifying SCO Claims Attack Intensifying: SCO's top network administrator says day-old denial-of-service attack on Web server has expanded to assault mail and file servers. [ZDNet UK] (DoS Attacks) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39118497,00.htm Net Attack Crushes SCO Web Site Net Attack Crushes SCO Web Site: Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack blocks access to site; firm incurred wrath of many Linux fans for its lawsuit against IBM. [CNET News.com] (DoS Attacks) http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-999584.html Brief: SCO Group's Web Site Knocked out for Three Days Brief: SCO Group's Web Site Knocked out for Three Days: Site was down from August 22 through 25, after possible distributed denial-of-service attack; incident now being investigated by FBI; 2nd such attack this year. [Computerworld] (DoS Attacks) http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,84405,00.html SCO Site Suffers DDoS Outage SCO Site Suffers DDoS Outage: SCO, now suing IBM for infringing its intellectual property, had its website taken offline by a well orchestrated denial-of-service attack. An avalanche of data blocked access to the site for several hours on Friday. [ZDNet UK] (DoS Attacks) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134275,00.html FBI Investigating DDoS Attack, SCO Suspects Link to Linux Community FBI Investigating DDoS Attack, SCO Suspects Link to Linux Community: SCO today confirmed that on 2 May 2003 about 10:00 a.m., it was victimized by large scale, coordinated DoS attack, using 90% of the bandwidth of SCO's ISP. FBI and US Attorney's office are investigating. [Linux Today] (DoS Attacks) http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003050601326NWCYLL SCO's Web Site Hit with DoS Attack SCO's Web Site Hit with DoS Attack: SCO site knocked off-line today by denial-of-service attack, firm confirms; doesn't know identity of attacker or why attack was launched. [Computerworld] (DoS Attacks) http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,88065,00.html SCO Site Downed by Attack SCO Site Downed by Attack: Large distributed denial-of-service (syn) attack brought down SCO web site, e-mail system, corporate intranet, customer support operations. No suspects are yet identified. [Internet Week] (DoS Attacks) http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16700116 SCO, Open-Source Leaders Trade Barbs SCO, Open-Source Leaders Trade Barbs: SCO CEO Darl McBride accuses president of Open Source Initiative, Eric Raymond, and open source community in general, of not doing enough to stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on SCO website. [eWeek] (DoS Attacks) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1261518,00.asp Attackers Take Down SCO Site Again Attackers Take Down SCO Site Again: For 3rd time this year, unknown attackers have deluged SCO website with enough data to make it inaccessible. [ZDNet UK] (DoS Attacks) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118458,00.htm Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline: SCO Web site slammed Wednesday by massive distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site fully unreachable for much of day; has been target of several similar attacks in recent months. [eWeek] (DoS Attacks) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1409467,00.asp Attack on SCO's Servers Intensifies Attack on SCO's Servers Intensifies: Day-old denial-of-service attack on Web servers of controversial SCO has expanded to firm's mail and file servers, SCO top network administrator says. [CNET News.com] (DoS Attacks) http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5120706.html President of OSI Responds to SCO's DoS Claims President of OSI Responds to SCO's DoS Claims: Eric S. Raymond reacts with suitable, short, indignant response, saying: "This is a baseless slur, unsupported by facts." Several forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] (DoS Attacks) http://lwn.net/Articles/31436/ Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked: Groklaw flooded with information showing SCO story doesn't add up; consensus: probably not attack, SCO description of issue makes no sense, if what they are saying is true SCO then admits gross negligence. Vast forum comments. [Groklaw] (DoS Attacks) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614