| SCO DoS attack: fact or fiction? |
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Since reports of the distributed denial of service attack a few days ago against SCO started surfacing, a number of people have questioned whether or not the attack went down as SCO stated. Groklaw has a piece up which casts serious doubt on whether SCO was truly attacked at all. SCO claimed that their web servers came under a SYN flood attack and were thus unavailable for its duration.
"SYN flood attack? Oh. My. Gawd. That's so 1999!"
Yes, and there has been a patch for Linux to thwart such attacks for some time now. So SCO is not terribly conscious about security, or something else is going on.
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