Why Would Anybody Want to Launch a DDOS Attack on SCO?
12/10. SCO stated in a release that “it experienced a large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.” It added that the attack caused its web site and corporate operational traffic “to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations”. SCO stated that it is “working with law enforcement officials” and that it deplores these “cyber terrorist attacks”. SCO wrote a letter to Linux customers on May 12, 2003 in which it asserted that “SCO holds the rights to the UNIX operating system software” and that the “vast majority of UNIX software used in enterprise applications today is a derivative work of the software originally distributed under our UNIX Licenses.” It continued in this letter that “In recent years, a UNIX-like operating system has emerged and has been distributed in the enterprise marketplace by various software vendors. This system is called Linux. We believe that Linux is, in material part, an unauthorized
