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Here comes a delay

Here comes a delay

Posted Dec 10, 2003 21:51 UTC (Wed) by Ken (guest, #14505)
Parent article: SCO press release on DDOS attack

I see SCO claiming they need to delay complying with discovery because of this. Note that they specifically say it affected their internal network. I hope this can be a proven as false or self inflicted and the judge takes action on it.


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Here comes a delay

Posted Dec 10, 2003 22:13 UTC (Wed) by vblum (subscriber, #1151) [Link]

Oh, good point. Especially since the intranet claim stinks - do they not own a firewall? Or did the DDoS attack really target their utilities company and backup generators?

Here comes a delay

Posted Dec 10, 2003 22:14 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Yeah, that's really the weakest part of the claim. How a SYN
attack against the public webserver would shut down the internal
network is unclear. Maybe they don't use a DMZ for publicly
provided services?!

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