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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]

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]

SCO DOS'ed

Brief article, many forum comments, on distributed denial of service attack on SCO. [Slashdot]

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]

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]

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]