Directory of DoS Attacks Resources

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This category is for links that are mostly or all about Denial of Service (DoS) attack, aspects of, and involvement in, the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit, and related actions.

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• Attack on SCO's Servers Intensifies

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-7355_3-5120706.html
  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]

• Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline

  http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/DenialofService-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]

• FBI Investigating DDoS Attack, SCO Suspects Link to Linux Community

  http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003050601326NWCYLL
  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]

• Net Attack Crushes SCO Web Site

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1002_3-999584.html
  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]

• President of OSI Responds to SCO's DoS Claims

  http://lwn.net/Articles/31436/
  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]

• SCO DOS'ed

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1729259
  Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot]

• SCO, Open-Source Leaders Trade Barbs

  http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/SCO-OpenSource-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]

• Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked

  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614
  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]

 

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