The day of reckoning has arrived and it has spelled MyDoom for SCO’s web site. Sniff.
Oddly enough, the DoS from one of the most widespread virus outbreaks hasn’t completely crippled their site. I am still able to pull up some of the site (albeit very slowly). That casts more doubt on their previous claims that the “DoS attacks” launched by “people in the Linux community”. If you remember, these earlier alleged attacks totally flatlined their site. Hmm. Hmm hmm.
The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX – News), the owner of the UNIX® operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, has confirmed that a large scale, Denial of Service attack has started that has made the company’s Web site, www.sco.com, completely unavailable. Internet traffic began building momentum on Saturday evening and by midnight Eastern Time the SCO Web site was flooded with requests beyond its capacity. The company expects these attacks to continue through Feb. 12.
“This large scale attack, caused by the Mydoom computer virus that is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, is now overwhelming the Internet with requests to www.sco.com,” said Jeff Carlon, worldwide director of Information Technology infrastructure, The SCO Group. “While we expect this attack to continue throughout the next few weeks, we have a series of contingency plans to deal with this problem and we will begin communicating those plans on Monday morning.”
I like that. An extra day means an extra press release! Heck, I bet they issue almost one PR per day over the course of this attack. Milk it SCObaby, milk it.