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Microsoft Azure Attack Shows Persistence of Blunt Hacking Tool
The recent outage on Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computer platform demonstrated the persistence of an older, blunt-force style of cyberattack. It’s called a distributed denial-of-service attack, DDoS for short, and it works by directing massive amounts of junk …