J
Jace
Off topic, but is anyone else able to get to www.microsoft.com at the
moment?
It appears to be offline.
Anyway.
moment?
It appears to be offline.
Anyway.
J
Jace
Me either. I just thought that it was curious in light of the attacks that
had been forecast due to newly discovered vulnerabilities in ms os software
lately.
So far it has been down at least from 3:06-3:15pm cst.
had been forecast due to newly discovered vulnerabilities in ms os software
lately.
So far it has been down at least from 3:06-3:15pm cst.
G
George Hester
Did you see one of today's headlines that there is a security risk in all Microsoft operating systems? The paper even gave the web address for the fix. It may be they are just overloaded.
J
Jace
Could be. I wonder though. It's been down for a bit now.
Did you see one of today's headlines that there is a security risk in all
Microsoft operating systems? The paper even gave the web address for the
fix. It may be they are just overloaded.
Did you see one of today's headlines that there is a security risk in all
Microsoft operating systems? The paper even gave the web address for the
fix. It may be they are just overloaded.
J
Jace
Hmm, this is getting interesting. Messenger has stopped being able to sign
in and msdn.microsoft.com was down briefly.
Microsoft is still down. Going on about 30 minutes now.
in and msdn.microsoft.com was down briefly.
Microsoft is still down. Going on about 30 minutes now.
R
Ray at
Maybe someone spilled some Starbucks coffee on a router. 
Ray at work
Ray at work
G
George Hester
A DOS could occur if everyone in the Country(World?) tried contacting Microsoft at once for this Security patch adverted in the Morning Papers today. It may or may not have been malicious.
D
David H. Lipman
August 01, CNET News - Microsoft.com suffers outage. A denial?of?service (DOS)
attack
rendered Microsoft's corporate Web site inaccessible for more than an hour on
Friday,
August 1. Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said no Windows vulnerability was
exploited
during the DOS attack. However, the outage temporarily prevented some customers
from
reaching Microsoft's security patches. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)
warned earlier last week that an attack could be brewing that exploits a
widespread flaw in
Microsoft's Windows operating system. No worm code had been reported by Friday
afternoon, but the DHS said there is evidence to show an increase in searches
for vulnerable
computers on the Internet over the past week. This reinforces the urgency to
install patches
on computers that use Windows operating systems as soon as possible, the
advisory said.
Source: http://news.com.com/2100?1002?5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
attack
rendered Microsoft's corporate Web site inaccessible for more than an hour on
Friday,
August 1. Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said no Windows vulnerability was
exploited
during the DOS attack. However, the outage temporarily prevented some customers
from
reaching Microsoft's security patches. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)
warned earlier last week that an attack could be brewing that exploits a
widespread flaw in
Microsoft's Windows operating system. No worm code had been reported by Friday
afternoon, but the DHS said there is evidence to show an increase in searches
for vulnerable
computers on the Internet over the past week. This reinforces the urgency to
install patches
on computers that use Windows operating systems as soon as possible, the
advisory said.
Source: http://news.com.com/2100?1002?5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
R
Ray at
The page you've requested cannot be found.
:[
Ray at work
:[
Ray at work
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David H. Lipman
I tried the URL, and I got there. I then copied the URL which is below, seems
to be different.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
Both work for me.
Dave
to be different.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
Both work for me.
Dave
Ray at said:
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David H. Lipman
Oh I see what happened !
The source of info was in a PDF file. I then copied the text out of the PDF and
into Notepad to strip out formatting then pasted the subject matter in post. In
the processes the URL:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
had the character "-" replaced by "?"
http://news.com.com/2100?1002?5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
Thanx Ray !
I'll keep a watch out for this anomaly in the future.
Dave
The source of info was in a PDF file. I then copied the text out of the PDF and
into Notepad to strip out formatting then pasted the subject matter in post. In
the processes the URL:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
had the character "-" replaced by "?"
http://news.com.com/2100?1002?5059056.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
Thanx Ray !
I'll keep a watch out for this anomaly in the future.
Dave