SCO Group’s Web Site Hit by Hackers Again

SCO Group Inc., a software developer that is seeking royalties from users of the Linux operating system, has been hit by a coordinated computer attack that made its Web site inaccessible to many visitors for several days.

It’s the second time this year that the Linden, Utah, company’s Web site has been the target of such an attack, in which hackers use multiple computers to overwhelm the site with traffic.

An SCO spokesman said the company had notified law enforcement authorities.

SCO has roiled the Linux community since filing a lawsuit against IBM Corp. in March claiming that some of SCO’s Unix software code has wrongly been copied into Linux. SCO is seeking royalties from Linux users.

Shares of SCO Group closed at $14.85, up $1.30, on Nasdaq.

From Dow Jones/Associated Press