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From: Laura Sexton <mdopp@schwartz-pr.com>
Subject: Statement from SCO regarding Denial of Service attack
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:59:50 GMT

FBI Investigating Serious Denial of Service Attack Against SCO; Seeks to Confirm
Identity of Attacker

Lindon, Utah - May 6, 2003 - SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX) today confirmed that on Friday,
May 2, 2003 at approximately 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time, it was victimized by a large
scale, coordinated Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The attack consumed about 90
percent of the available bandwidth of SCOs service provider for the entire Lindon,
Utah backbone.

A special agent for Intrusion Detection at the FBI Cyber Crimes Division in Salt Lake
City was contacted and is now analyzing full information on the attacks. Personnel
at the U.S. Attorneys office are proceeding with an investigation into the attack.

It appears that the perpetrator(s) placed a BOT or Worm on a compromised machine,
which was able to load this worm onto hundreds of other machines, which then triggered
attacks at the same time.

The ISP has identified 138 different machines as the intermediate source, but has not yet
confirmed the identity of the original source. The ISP characterized this as "the second
largest DoS attack" they have ever encountered.

"SCO is vigorously investigating the source of the attack and the identity of the
perpetrators," said company spokesperson, Blake Stowell.  "This attack came within 48
hours of IBMs response to SCOs lawsuit against IBM alleging intellectual property
infringement.  Given this close proximity in time we are carefully examining whether a
link exists between SCOs legal action and some of the Linux community who are hostile
toward SCO for asserting its legal rights."

"A denial of service attack is a serious criminal violation.  Cyber terrorism hurts a
business as much as any other crime involving destruction of property.  Unfortunately,
some programmers who disagree with SCOs corporate policies have ignored the
seriousness of cyber terrorism.  This was a mistake on the part of the people involved,
because we will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and will do everything
possible to assure that justice is done for the commission of this crime," said Stowell.


About The SCO Group
The SCO Group (NASDAQ: SCOX) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to
grow their businesses everyday through business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah,
SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global
Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers.
For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com.

SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera
International, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX, used under an exclusive license,
is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Linux
is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other brand or product names are or may be
trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.


Contact:

Blake Stowell
The SCO Group
bstowell@sco.com
Tel:  (801) 932-5703
www.sco.com

Laura Sexton/Avi Dines
Schwartz Communications
sco@schwartz-pr.com
Tel:  (781) 684-0770

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