'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week
Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists Share Copy in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools Day, Redmond has said. Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of "an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure." In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the floo...
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