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Friday, August 29, 2003

Minn. Teen Faces Internet Attack Charges (AP). AP - U.S. cyber investigators arrested a Minnesota teenager Friday who the FBI said has admitted unleashing one version of a damaging virus-like infection weeks ago on the Internet. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
1:49:05 PM

Teenage Blaster Worm Suspect Under Investigation (Reuters). Reuters - A Washington state teenager suspected of making the devastating Blaster Internet worm even more potent is under investigation and his arrest is pending, U.S. law enforcement sources said on Friday. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
9:34:04 AM

Linux Advisory Watch - August 29th 2003. - by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for docview, unzip, sendmail, iptables, pam_smb, gdm, php, and perl. The distributors include Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux. [Linux.Com: NewsForge Reports]
8:54:02 AM

Hosting Companies under Attack?. The recent spate of distributed denial of service attacks has diversified, with some attackers apparently now targetting hosting companies. On Tuesday rackspace.com was attacked just one day after issuing a press release launching a service to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks, while early Friday morning[BST] Rackshack appeared to suffer a similar attack. [Netcraft]
Bad news. This means that whoever is behind the attacks now has lots of zombies under control and can turn them on at will. Very disturbing. Blackhole lists have also been targeted in recent weeks.

8:41:37 AM

SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies

SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 29, @12:40AM

from the one-hundred-eighty-degrees dept.

cadfael writes "SCO is reported in the Age as saying they 'Have no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict the earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of this mess
[Slashdot]

Your morning SCO fix. This would seem right for SCO to say. After this is still just a beef with IBM over trade secrets and licensing issues. Everything else is just noise. In order to go after anyone other than IBM or any of its licensees, SCO would need to press copyright infringement cases and that just won't fly for all of the reasons we've seen on the net in the past couple of months.
For example, if SCO truly beleived that copyrighted SystemV Unix code was in the Linux kernel, and wanted to enforce it's copyrights, it would need to after the folks who build the kernel, and those who distribute it. That would mean suing the likes of Linus himself and Redhat. SCO would first have to reveal to the parties what the exact nature of the infringment is, including the precise areas of the kernel that are copied, and, with oversight by a court, give the infringers a chance to sure the infringement, that is remove the code. SCO is not inclined to do this because of the difficulty of proving that Caldera (it's predecessor) didn't really release all of that code under the GPL years ago and that the contributors actually directly copied the code from SystemV.

8:36:38 AM