Mntsnow
02-03-2004, 7:21 AM
The SCO Group Monday launched a new website, a day after the super-potent MyDoom computer worm knocked the American software firm clean off the Internet.
The surprising severity of the MyDoom attack has sent a shiver through the Internet security community. In marshalling an army of zombie PCs -- many of whom are unsuspecting home computer users -- to silence an online target, MyDoom represents a new level of cyber warfare, security officials said.
"With such a program you could really take out any major website on the Internet," said Raimund Genes, European president of security software firm Trend Micro. "This is a form of electronic warfare. It's not terrorism, but it is somebody who is obviously upset with SCO."
The Utah-based SCO has drawn the ire of advocates of the Linux computer operating system that is a rival to both SCO's Unix and Microsoft's Windows. But Linux was developed by volunteer programmers and can be downloaded for free.
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The surprising severity of the MyDoom attack has sent a shiver through the Internet security community. In marshalling an army of zombie PCs -- many of whom are unsuspecting home computer users -- to silence an online target, MyDoom represents a new level of cyber warfare, security officials said.
"With such a program you could really take out any major website on the Internet," said Raimund Genes, European president of security software firm Trend Micro. "This is a form of electronic warfare. It's not terrorism, but it is somebody who is obviously upset with SCO."
The Utah-based SCO has drawn the ire of advocates of the Linux computer operating system that is a rival to both SCO's Unix and Microsoft's Windows. But Linux was developed by volunteer programmers and can be downloaded for free.
Read more (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62138,00.html)