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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808118

Microsoft's Web site was made inaccessible for an hour and 40 minutes 
Friday afternoon when a denial-of-service attack overwhelmed the site 
with traffic, making it impossible for legitimate page requests to get 
through.

The outage, which began about 1:21 p.m. Pacific time, was the result of 
a conventional denial-of- service attack and not a software 
vulnerability being exploited, a Microsoft spokesman says. 

That distinction is important because the software company issued a 
bulletin July 14 warning customers of a critical vulnerability in its 
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating 
systems. Following that notice, the Department of Homeland Security 
issued its own advisory warning consumers and businesses to patch their 
computer systems.

The denial-of-service attack affected Microsoft's home page, 
www.microsoft.com, and the many other URLs associated with it, 
including Microsoft's tech-support page, www.support.microsoft.com, and 
its developer portal, www.msdn.microsoft.com. 

Microsoft personnel are working in conjunction with law-enforcement 
officials to trace the attack. The spokesman points out that a hacker's 
conference opened Friday in Las Vegas. But he said Microsoft had no 
evidence to link the denial-of-service attack to the conference or to 
warnings three weeks ago of a broad, coordinated attack against 
Internet sites. 
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