Outages Continue at SCO
15th December, 2003
The web site outages continue at SCO, which was unreachable for much of the weekend and is currently experiencing its fourth incident of extended downtime since it came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last Thursday.


A dynamically updating graph is available here.
Posted by Rich Miller in Performance, Security
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