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Kim "Santa" Dotcom Creates Christmas Miracle: Xbox Back Online While Playstation Struggles Following Lizard Squad DDoS Attack
It appears the hacker group Lizard Squad made good on its threat to cause Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation big headaches for Christmas. The group left gamers unable to use new consoles received as gifts by orchestrating DDoS attacks on the sites. This comes after the group claimed credit for… Continue reading
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Tagged after-the-group, cloud-computing, gamers-unable, group-left, hybrid, made-good, microsoft, public, the-group, web hosting
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Recent Microsoft Azure Outage Came Down to Human Error: Report
Microsoft offered more details this week about the cause of the Microsoft Azure outage in November that caused downtime for thousands of sites, including Microsoft’s own msn.com and Windows Store. Continue reading
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Tagged cloud-computing, infrastructure, microsoft, outages and downtime, public, the-cause, week, windows
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Microsoft’s Government Cloud Comes Online
Services on Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure designed and built specifically for serving government clients are now in general availability. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the announcement at the company’s event in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. Continue reading
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Tagged announcement, ceo, government-clients, hosting, infrastructure, microsoft, satya, services-on-microsoft, shared, web hosting
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Microsoft Confirms Acquisition of Mobile Email App Acompli
After Microsoft accidentally published a blog post announcing an acquisition last week, mobile email application Acompli confirmed the rumor on Monday. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Continue reading
As STARTTLS Adoption Grows, Facebook Reports Huge Jump in Encrypted Notification Emails
Facebook notification emails are encrypted 95 percent of the time with Perfect Forward Secrecy and strict certificate validation, up from less than 30 percent in May of this year. The dramatic improvement is largely due to changes made by major email providers like Microsoft and Yahoo, which have deployed STARTTLS, according to a post by the social network. Continue reading
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Tagged changes-made, from-less, largely-due, microsoft, perfect, perfect-forward, secrecy, time, vodahost, web hosting, yahoo
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