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...mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom??€™s attack would have easily overrun SCO’s servers. But SCO just changed its domain name temporarily and avoided the Mydoom-mediated wrath of its pro-open-source assailants. Though Mydoom failed in its main objective, it succeeded in proving that social engineering tactics were useful...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Byting Bagles | 4/13/2004 | See Source »

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