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Microsoft's Tough Friday: Software giant battles hackers, malware, and a cloud outage |
February 24, 2013
While workers at many companies were ending their work week Friday, Microsoft techs were scrambling to put out operational fires.
Late on Friday afternoon, Microsoft discovered that its worldwide Azure cloud service had gone offline when an expired security certificate prevented users from accessing the network.
Meanwhile, the company also discovered that a malware infection already discovered on internal computers at Facebook, Apple, and Twitter had crept into its in-house systems, too.
Azure fails
All encrypted traffic on Azure was disrupted when an SSL certificate expired, Microsoft explained at a company website. Unencrypted traffic was unaffected by the certificate snafu, the company added.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2029190/microsofts-tough-friday-software-giant-battles-hackers-malware-and-a-cloud-outage.html
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