Note that, before groklaw went unavailable, it appears that
SCO had a non-trivial set of changes to their web pages,
that appear to NOT be caused by a restore of older stuff.

Unfortunately I've lost the url for the site that keeps backups of web pages...

rc

As a consultant who has set up numerous networks, this is absurd. Nowadays, even the cheap hardware you use can buy at the local store has the necessary capacity to deal with a DDoS attack. If this really was a DDoS attack, I think the http://www.sco.com/ site would be up already. I can't imagine it taking more than an HOUR to fix things, maybe a little more if you have to download some patches or recompile into your kernel the support for blocking the attack.

The fact that it's taken so long either means that there was no DDos Attack, or that if there was, SCO was totally clueless at dealing with something that any small-time computer consultant such as me would have put an end to in a matter of minutes.

Please see the commentary (and comments) on www.groklaw.net, which began checking out the "attack" from 11:19 AM EST on 10 December. An ace site with a wealth of shared expertise.

Good story coverage. By the way, I called SCO and asked specifically which Law Enforcement agenices have been contacted and are working the case. I have yet to recieve a response. The FBI should have a Special Agent in Charge assigned to the case.

Take SCO's claim at their word. They're incompetent. An OS manufacturer and distributor, as well as a web solutions provider, completely helpless against an ancient form of attack against web sites. How can anyone sleep at night, running SCO products, saying, "this company stands behind me"?

The only other credible alternative is that their executives are lying. Can anyone sleep at night knowing that liars are standing behind them?

Either you've got a company that is incompetent in its core competency, or you've got executives who are liars. Either way, this isn't a positive event for SCO.

SCO wouldn't know a DDOS attack was happening even if it bit them on the arse. Not enough people would visit their web site for them to be alerted that they had a problem. They can't even show they have the technical prowess to "find" stolen code in freely available source code. I visisted their employment section of sco.com. I find it rather amusing that the current UNIX company had some jobs that required the potential employee to know how to use MS Office. No mention of Star Office, Abiword, or any other office productivity software that runs on any flavor of UNIX. I would show specific details, but I doubt Darl turned the web server back on...