We reported less than two weeks ago, the launch of some clever networking equipment from the folks at Riverhead Networks that could protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
It's a shame SCO didn't contact Riverhead to discuss it further. If they had, their website would be accessible and not completely offline as it is now.
SCO are the victim of the recent MyDoom virus. The MyDoom virus was programmed to attack the SCO website from 1st February 2004. As the virus spread so quickly, there are an estimated 250,000 infected computers around the world unwittingly taking part in a DDoS against SCO.
We spoke to Steve Woo, Marketing & Business Development Vice President at Riverhead Networks earlier today. He explained,
"The massive DDoS blitz against SCO launched by the MyDoom infected computers is exactly the type of severe, massively distributed attack that only Riverhead's new XT Series solution can protect against. As shown by MyDoom, attackers are able to quickly amass huge numbers of attack sources."
"The Riverhead XT Series delivers the high-performance purpose built appliances combined with clustering ability to scale protection against the largest DDoS attacks - on two equally critical dimensions: - against the largest number of zombies (or MyDoom infected PC attack sources) easily numbering into the hundreds of thousands and beyond - and against the aggregate millions of packets per second deluge."
Steve continued,
"The worm infected PCs were programmed to open many threads (connections) and have each thread send legitimate HTTP GET requests to the www.sco.com main page every 100s to 1000s of milliseconds. This volume of requests easily overloaded SCO. The new Riverhead solution was designed to and could keep the SCO website, and any other business, online against the massive DDoS attack such as those launched by MyDoom or other variants."
We recommend you (and SCO) read more detailed information about both the Guard XT and the Detector XT products on the Riverhead Networks website.
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