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Xbox Live outage was caused by major DNS DDoS attack – TechRadar
Microsoft promises to do better on monitoring and mitigating traffic anomalies.
Microsoft has confirmed that the recent outage that struck a number of its cloud-based services came as a result of a DNS DDoS attack.
The outage, which lasted for roughly two hours, was triggered by an anomalous surge in DNS queries that came from all over the world and were targeting a set of Azure-hosted domains.
Microsofts users were recently unable to access a whole slew of cloud-based services, such as Xbox Live, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Intune, Dynamics 365, Microsoft…
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