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Linux Fans Attack SCO

DDoS Attack Slows Traffic To A Crawl

         

digitalghost

7:53 pm on May 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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SCO's Internet service provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1 data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack. "It was a large, extremely well-orchestrated DDoS attack," ViaWest told SCO.

Story Here [businessweek.com]

bird

3:33 pm on May 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Linux Fans Attack SCO

Stowell said SCO had no indication who was behind the attack or why it was launched

Jumping to conclusions with this thread title, are we? ;)

Not to say that the idiot(s) staging such an attack may not consider themselfes to be "linux fans". But maybe we should refrain from collective finger pointing until we actually know who it was.