SCO Site Attacked Again

The SCO Group Inc.’s Web site has once again been attacked, but this time hackers didn’t just target the site for a distributed-denial-of-service attack—they defaced the Web site itself.

The site was altered in at least two ways sometime during the Thanksgiving weekend. The most obvious attack was on SCO’s home page, where a banner image for SCO Web seminars has been replaced with a JPEG image that says, “We own all your code. Pay us all your money.” In the background, a woman appears to be writing “realloc(,” a common C language function used to change the size of a memory block. The image was still on the site at the time this report was written.

In addition to the main SCO Web site, the Lindon, Utah-based Unix company’s alternative sites, www.thescogroup.com and www.caldera.com, were also showing the hacked image.

Earlier, the site had been hacked so that the page “Red Hat v. SCO,” which gives SCO’s side of its case with Red Hat Inc., was altered to “SCO vs. World.” It included the following text: “Recently we found parts of our code in almost all Microsoft(R) software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft(R) and our legal department is working on that. … Currently we are checking older MS-DOS sources. It’s obvious, that all while (1){ do_something; } and for (i = 0; i Full Article