A flood attack was being executed on the SCO servers today. The attack, aimed at SCO for starting a lawsuit that claims the rights over a bigger portion of the linux source code, was a simple SYN flood. That sort of attack starts a connection to the server (occupying memory) and never closes it. When done in big numbers, the server machine can run out of resources, or due to the volume of data transported, the network connected to the servers can become completely filled up.
These attacks have been the third blow to SCO in the past three weeks.
The SCO Web site outage was confirmed by several monitoring services. Around 50,000 packets per second hit the company's servers on Wednesday night and around 3,000 packets per second on Thursday.

This is a small post to show what games I'm currently playing.
Feel free to join up and start a war with me (or an mutual peace agreement ofcourse).
Dawn of Myth, returned from the dead will start next year, so we just have to be patient for a little while longer. Planetia sign-ups started yesterday, i'm in my galaxy and ready to kick some ass. Tafke asked me to join Utopia next round, which I will. The current round is supposed to last for another week or something. Dominion, and utopia clone, also opened sign-ups for the coming round.

Recently, Dawn of Myth announced it's return, but also another game, Planetia, has recovered for the cracking attack which made the round stop halfway.

Planetia signups for the new round have been delayed a whil, but they are coming. New this round is a system where private galaxies contain 10 choosen members and 3 random members in addition.

That new signup system is not so very good in my opinion, but I guess we'll be OK.

Dawn of Myth, the browser based multiplayer game has found a new sponsor contract.
This is great news for the fans of the game, as we will be able to continue playing it within some weeks time. The promised a better server with increased bandwith, but I just hope it will be back soon. Dawn of Myth was, without doubt, one of the coolest games in the genre.

A serious vulnerability in the Linux 2.4 kernel has been discovered. The flaw allows users on a Linux machine to gain unlimited access privileges, according to a security advisory posted by developers of the noncommercial Debian Linux distribution.

In an attack four Linux servers that hosted Debian's bug tracking system, mailing lists, and various Web pages were compromised.

A patch is (and actually was) already available. The Debian linux distrivution (and some other ones too) just let it slip past there update system.