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Growth of radicalism within Open Source - SCO under attack again

Posted by dave on · 4 comments
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The main SCO Group web site (sco.com) has been intermittently accessible on Tuesday and Wednesday, having been down on Monday, displaying characteristic patterns seen during a protracted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Several related domains have also been off - and on-line over the last 72 hours.

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Comments (4)

This article is complete FUD.

mi2g is the group that said Linux is the most insecure OS. If Linux is the only security threat, why are other OS's having problems like DDOS attacks?

This kind of self serving FUD should be made to backfire. As a member of the open source community I hope SCO asks for the FBI to investigate these alleged attacks.

I have the feeling they will not actually involve the authorities. I doubt that SCO wants the true source of the "attacks" known. SCO should know by now that the truth has a way of hurting them.

I have two questions about the DDOS attacks.

Are they happening 9am -5pm MST(utah time zone) again.

And DDOS attacks come from Infected Windows machines. Why isn't MSFT uilty of commiting crimes againist hummanity with software built like swiss cheese.

Active X was a KNOWN security risk in 1999. Why is it still active? Patched thousands of times, but the whole concept had to many wholes in it.
The phrase "Lame Duck" was invented to describe situations like this. (-:
With all that tech, you would think they could get a OS fingerprint. Guess not. My P133 can grab their ass with nmap-nessus/p0f-queso. It smells as if they are completely full of shit.

I think their relevence has long since passed the pissed off stage. Just no impetus to Ddos'em. They are just a joke now. The next move is Microsoft. That won't be a joke. Ballmer has already started in on the predictable path.

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