New attack on SCO site mocks legal campaign
New attack on SCO site mocks legal campaign
Hackers have once again defaced the SCO Group's website, with a message that mocked the company's claims for financial recompense over the alleged use of its proprietary Unix code within the Linux operating system.
The message, which was designed to look like the genuine graphics on the site, with the SCO logo emblazoned on it, read "we own all your code" and "pay us all your money." The spoof images remained on the site for about three hours yesterday before they were removed.
Earlier this year, the SCO site was subject to a crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attack, caused by a variant of the MyDoom virus, which infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and programmed them to send requests to access the SCO site, which brought it down for several days. On that particular occasion, the company was forced to create an alternative web address.
SCO has made enemies of the open source community around the world through its campaign that seeks compensation from vendors that sell the Linux operating system, as well as their corporate customers, on the grounds that elements of its proprietary Unix source code has been used in Linux without its consent. It is embroiled in lawsuits with Linux providers such as IBM, Novell and Red Hat, as well as a number of large scale Linux users. There is little doubt that the perpetrator of this latest attack is sympathetic to the open source advocates.
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