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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