IP: Hotmail users unable to retrieve spam for second day: Good Morning Silicon Valley Fri Jan 26 12:00:14 EST 2001

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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