Mntsnow
02-03-2004, 7:19 AM
Mydoom's success at forcing software company SCO Group Inc. to take down its Web site, despite knowing days in advance that the virus would launch a denial of service attack over the weekend, demonstrates that no company is safe from such large-scale assaults.
An army of infected computers estimated at between 25,000 and 50,000 machines began bombarding the SCO web server with requests for its homepage Saturday evening. By midnight EST, the bogus traffic made the site inaccessible despite efforts by the company's technical staff to fend off the attack, which experts say was the largest of its kind ever.
An hour later, SCO removed the site from the Internet's global directory, and later advised customers and business partners that its address had been changed from www.sco.com to www.thescogroup.com. The attack on the original site was set to continue until Feb. 12.
Read more (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040202S0011)
An army of infected computers estimated at between 25,000 and 50,000 machines began bombarding the SCO web server with requests for its homepage Saturday evening. By midnight EST, the bogus traffic made the site inaccessible despite efforts by the company's technical staff to fend off the attack, which experts say was the largest of its kind ever.
An hour later, SCO removed the site from the Internet's global directory, and later advised customers and business partners that its address had been changed from www.sco.com to www.thescogroup.com. The attack on the original site was set to continue until Feb. 12.
Read more (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040202S0011)