Mydoom scores -- SCO site out of the ballgame

The Mydoom virus added another notch to its belt on Sunday (Monday AEST), in a mammoth DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on SCO's website. 

According to a statement released by the troubled company, Internet traffic began its build-up on Saturday evening, and by midnight the website was brought to its knees. 

Jeff Carlon, worldwide director of IT infrastructure for the SCO Group, said '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.' 

Security officials were surprised by the speed and savageness of the attack, stating 'it was spectacularly successful'.

So far the worm has only attacked the SCO website, and does not appear to be set to launch further attacks on other websites. However, the Mydoom.B worm is programmed to attack the Microsoft website on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST).

Source: Reuters

-- ne()pyhte