Microsoft's Web Site Brought Down By Attack

02:42 - Monday 4 August 2003 by THG Reporting Team
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: microsofts, web, site, brought, down, by, attack Category : Miscellaneous

Microsoft's Web site was made inaccessible for an hour and 40 minutes Friday afternoon when a denial-of-service attack overwhelmed the site with traffic, making it impossible for legitimate page requests to get through. "The outage, which began about 1:21 p.m. Pacific time, was the result of a conventional denial-of-service attack and not a software vulnerability being exploited, a Microsoft spokesman says."

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