REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 1, 2003 -- The Web site properties of Microsoft.com today experienced a denial-of-service attack, which lasted approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. A denial-of-service attack is simply a malicious flood of site requests that results in exponentially higher-than-normal traffic, and overwhelms the server capacity. This attack does not have any association with any known vulnerability in Microsoft software. Microsoft has contacted the appropriate authorities, is cooperating in the investigation of the cause of this attack, and will take appropriate action. Microsoft regrets any inconvenience this has caused to visitors to the Microsoft.com Web site.

View: Technical article on denial-of-service attacks
News source: MS Presspass

Microsoft's server division is the only business unit at Microsoft, besides those responsible for Windows and Office, that made money in the previous quarter. At today's analyst meeting, Microsoft will announce a change to a unit accountability system which will address this problem. The idea is that Microsoft's money-losing operations will no longer be quietly bolstered by the sales of its successful products, and each business unit will have to cost-justify their products' existence. [That would be apart from the Xbox boys eh?]


There are 10 additional comments
Advertisement
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by DJ Prem on 02 Aug 2003 - 08:14
OMG....Thank god that got resolved......LOL....
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by DJ^TuRKiYe on 02 Aug 2003 - 08:28
MSN Messenger wasn't signing in for me today untill around 6:26PM AU EST
Anything to do with this?
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by CoolShady2002 on 02 Aug 2003 - 15:31
I wouldn't have thought so.
(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by kidd0 on 02 Aug 2003 - 11:15
No credit to me?
*bows*
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by Octol on 02 Aug 2003 - 13:09
Credit? That's a good one! Reminds me of the old joke about the ant crawling up the elephant's leg with rape on his mind!

Nevertheless, like a persistent fly buzzing around a giant's ear, you've now gotten Microsoft's attention. And my guess is that they're getting out their fly swatter as we speak.

I hope you enjoy your five minutes of fame, my friend: when they stick you in a cell with Bubba the Serial Rapist, it'll be interesting to see if your "Denial of Service" tactics work with him!

MWAAHAHAHAHAH.........
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by Spike101M69 on 02 Aug 2003 - 17:00
lol
Quote this comment #3.3 Posted by netizen on 02 Aug 2003 - 17:06
I notice kidd0 has removed any info about his hacking activities from his website
Quote this comment #3.4 Posted by Jason on 02 Aug 2003 - 17:53
Anyone can teach themselves to hack, the majority just don't want to as they have a full life to lead.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by hao2lian on 02 Aug 2003 - 17:24
I guess somebody doesn't like Microsoft. I wonder who?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by insurektion on 03 Aug 2003 - 01:31
I like MS! Just a bit more fine tuning to xp a better file system and less bloat and your good to go.
[1]

Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!

Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.


Scroll to the Top
....
My Preferences
....
Communicating with server
Loading
Please Wait...
....
Loading
 X 
....