On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Robert Laird wrote:
My understanding is not that they were hacked. Todd Fast exploited the
long URL bug (a bug, not a backdoor oranything like that) against their
server and contacted them. The few days were it seems damned near
impossible to get to www.microsoft.com was not because horrid hackers had
keel-hauled all the webmasters and hijacked the machines to server up
zero day warez. it was because some poor schmuck at microsoft has set
the TTL of one of the www.microsoft.com A records to 8 hours, while the
rest where down to like 6 minutes or something. So the end result of
that was that everyone was trying ot go to the same IP address, while the
other servers just sat idle.
> <snip>
> >understand your risk level with a closed system (i.e., Microsoft
> >didn't even know their risk, and was taken off the 'net for two days
> >last week),
>
> Where can I get the details (are any available???) on what happened
> to M$ last week? I mean, I know they were hacked, and I know they
> went off-line, but how did it happen?
>
> -- Robert
>
Craig Brozefsky craig @
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