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An unusual denial of service attack
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| We were facing a distributed denial of service attack from the world's
| largest "botnet:" Microsoft's "Windows Update."
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| [...]
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| As Spider-Man creator Stan Lee once noted, "with great power comes great
| responsibility." Microsoft, by virtue of its control over Windows-based PCs,
| has the ability to shut down the entire Internet at will -- and must be
| careful not to do it, inadvertently, by turning 90% of the world's PCs into
| a "zombie army."
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| Furthermore, content delivery networks such as Akamai, which distributes
| Microsoft's updates, must not be allowed to discriminate against smaller
| providers by making updates uncacheable (at least by a standards-conforming
| Web cache) and then denying smaller ISPs access to a cache that WILL cache
| them.
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http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/post_content.html?post_id=20090504115650:28FFC4D6-38C4-11DE-94B1-F4216E3412D6&address=000
Related:
Are we being DOS attacked by a Microsoft employee?
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| Now I find it funny that a person that lives about 5 minutes from Redmond
| which is the headquarters of Microsoft is DOS attacking us and I don't
| believe that this is a coincidence.
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http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/thomas/are_we_being_dos_attacked_by_a.bb
Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
| engine.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
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