December 11, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The SCO (sco.com) Web site was knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday and remained offline more than eight hours after it was initially attacked, according to a report published by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).
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Netcraft said the SCO Web site site has been down since 4:20 am Mountain Time on Wednesday, December 10. The attack also affected SCO’s email, intranet and customer support operations.
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According to Netcraft, SCO has contacted law enforcement officials and is working with its Internet service provider to restore the site to operation.
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According to Netcraft, the company said the attack used “several thousand servers (that) were compromised by an unknown person to overload SCO’s Web site with illegitimate Web site requests.”
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SCO, currently embroiled in a legal battle with IBM over UNIX licensing copyrights, also suffered a DDoS attack on its Web site in August.
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At press time, the SCO Web site remained offline.
