MyDoom worm scores direct hit and knocks out SCO site
Denial of service attack spectacularly successful' says expert
02-01-2004 12:58:47 AM CST -- Story by Bernhard Warner for Reuters via ComputerWorld.com


The MyDoom Internet worm claimed its first scalp Sunday, paralyzing the Web site of software firm The SCO Group Inc. with a massive data blitz. In a statement issued this morning, the Utah-based company confirmed MyDoom knocked its site, http://www.sco.com, out of commission with a distributed denial of service attack. "Internet traffic began building momentum Saturday evening and by midnight Eastern Time the SCO Web site was flooded with requests beyond its capacity," the statement read. "While we expect this attack to continue throughout the next few weeks, we have a series of contingency plans to deal with this problem and we will begin communicating those plans on Monday morning," Jeff Carlon, worldwide director of Information Technology infrastructure, The SCO Group, said in the statement.

Doom worm scores a direct hit to the heart of the SCO beast. (Did it have a heart ?)

The speed and severity of the attack surprised security officials. "It was spectacularly successful," said Mikko Hypponen, research manager at Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure. As intended, Sco.com was the only discernible victim today. There were no other reports of outages or slowdowns elsewhere online due to the worm..... continued... Click here to read the full story at ComputerWorld.com Click here to read a hilarious story from NetCraft on how SCO could work around this problem

I find it a bit odd that there was 'no discernable collateral damage' noted elsewhere on the Internet from the shotgun effects of what is apparently a large DOS attack...