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IP: Hotmail users unable to retrieve spam for second day: Good Morning Silicon Valley Fri Jan 26 12:00:14 EST 2001
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:20:47 -0500
Hotmail users unable to retrieve spam for second day: Microsoft said a distributed denial of service attack was responsible for <http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/top/docs/ms012601.htm>another day of embarrassing failures at a number of its Web sites Thursday. "It is unfortunate that an individual or group of individuals would engage in this kind of illegal activity," the company said in a <http://www.microsoft.com/info/siteaccess.htm>statement. "Microsoft has made the FBI aware of this situation." The attack comes a day after another 23-hour site outage, this one <http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41412,00.html>inspired by the DNS configuration errors of a bumbling Microsoft technician. Microsoft seems to believe Thursday's attack was made possible by the discovery of an unfortunate design weakness in its Internet architecture <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41423,00.html>revealed to the public a day earlier when the company was trying to get its sites backup. Amusingly enough, the outage seems to have inspired a number of folks to register <http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=174096756&m=505096357>Microsoft-critical
sub domains which they then attached to their own domains, among them:
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