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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]
http://lwn.net/Articles/31436/
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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]
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003050601326NWCYLL
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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]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5067743.html
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SCO Experiences Distributed Denial of Service Attack
A type of DDoS attack, called a Syn attack, halted availability to SCO internal operations, several
thousand servers were compromised by unknown person to overload SCO website with illegitimate
requests. [Yahoo Finance]
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031210/law081_1.html
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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]
http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5120706.html
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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]
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,84405,00.html
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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]
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,88065,00.html
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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]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118546,00.htm
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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]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118458,00.htm
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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]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39118497,00.htm
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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]
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1409467,00.asp
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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]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614
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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]
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1261518,00.asp
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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]
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-999584.html
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SCO DOS'ed
Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1729259
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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]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134275,00.html
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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]
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16700116
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