Hackers deface SCO site

Hackers defaced SCO Group's Web site on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system.

In a hack that began sometime before 5:30 a.m. PST Monday, someone placed a graphic atop SCO's home page that read "we own all your code" and "pay us all your money." The spoof used the same fonts and colors employed throughout the company's site, along with a copy of the software maker's official logo. By 8:30 a.m. PST, the altered graphic had been removed.

SCO representatives did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

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Monday's hack is the latest in a string of attacks launched against SCO. Earlier this year, the company watched helplessly as a variant of the MyDoom computer virus crippled its site, forcing SCO to resort to an alternate Web address. MyDoom, which is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, inundated the Internet with requests for SCO's site, resulting in a denial-of-service attack.

The latest assault was aimed at SCO's long-running campaign that seeks compensation from companies selling and using the Linux operating system. The company launched a lawsuit against IBM last year, claiming that the computing giant illegally gave the open-source community source code from the Unix operating system, which SCO claims to control, for use in Linux.

SCO's efforts have evolved into a far-ranging attack on Linux, attracting legal attention from Linux companies Novell and Red Hat and drawing the ire of Linux supporters worldwide.

[martinedens]

wow

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SCO should have left the "Headline"

I am surprised that SCO considered it a hack. I would have thought that they would have just left it in saying to themselves...."We own your code?, yeah that sounds about right" Maybe they took it off and considered it a hack because it didn't include "unless you pay us big $$$ to get it back"

[Earl Benser]

SCO has enough trouble...

... with it's virtually fraudulent law suits running on under-the-
table M$ money. People should take pity on the SCO board who
a year ago couldn't even spell 'intellectual property'. So let's stop
defacing the web site , and runni8ng the denial of service
attacks, and let SCO focus on it's basic job, corporate Hara-Kiri
in the courts.

It will certainly be a fine day when SCO skids into the Chapter 11
dumper. And It couldn'tt happen to a more deserving company.

[ray08]

We don't know who did it, but SCO will accuse open source "zealots"

No one even knows if was a "hacker". It could be SCO themselves, trying to stir up trouble and look like the helpless (which, in a way, they really are) victim. Look for SCO PRs that claim Linux zealots defaced their site. If it's an outsider, they're probably in China or Russia and not affiliated with open source, but that won't matter to SCO. Why would they care about the truth??

[David Arbogast]

WHAT?? LoL....

Earl, you crack me up...

First of all, it is painfully obvious why a hacker who favors open-source would consider attacking SCO.

What is not clear, is why a person not affiliated with open-source, randomly located in China or Russia, would want to attack SCO.


So... SCO gets nailed, and you immediately put blame on SCO... on some random person in China or Russia... anybody, so long as they are not associated with open-source, right? Where is the logic in that conclusion?

[Ubber geek]

trying to stir up trouble

http://www.analogstereo.com/acura_csx_owners_manual.htm

[Sir Geek]

Before 5:30 AM ?

It was hacked mid-day Sunday. I saw the links to image caps on /. yesterday afternoon.

[zaznet]

Depends on your source

5:30 AM is when it was reported as noticed by whoever C|Net's sources are. Obviously some of them don't subscribe to some of the same sources of information you do. :)

[gonzalo_lopez]

Hilarious!!!

Beyond the bad or the good the are not telling lies ... and by the way ... Read below in the picture, "Maintenance Pack 1 Enhanced Security" ... I wonder if they have it installed.

Definitely Hilarious!!!

*Crackers*, not hackers

I know, I know - the media has been using it for years now and most people know what they mean etc etc, but still I can't stand it to see the word hacker being misused. Hackers created the Internet, and programmed your OS on 24*80 green-on-black terminals. They might rattle the doorhandle, but will not break stuff.
Compare
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
and
http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html

Besides, what this article described is only half the hack, see http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/29/028207