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Microsoft says Azure Outage Caused by Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Response.

What could have caused such a Major Issue?. This attack was performed by the hacker group Anonymous Sudan who launch Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks against western governments and organizations. A research showed that the Distributed Denial-of-Service attack has triggered protection mechanisms. But a certain bug in the defenses has resulted in the impact being amplified instead of being lightened. If Microsoft had not had that bug, it may have been able to prevent the attack entirely..

What is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack?. A Distributed Denial-of-Service attack is an attack in which an adversary increases the traffic of a website by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic. The attacker takes control of a large number of devices and uses them to overload the website with requests. This results in websites becoming slow or unavailable, making it difficult for users to access..

HOW CAN WE PREVENT THESE TYPES OF ATTACKS?.

Use dedicated, always-on Distributed Denial-of-Service mitigation.

Configure rate limiting. This sets a limit for the number of requests from a single IP address. This helps to prevent a server being overwhelmed by requests..

Cache content on a content delivery network (CDN).

Establish internal processes for responding to attacks.

Of course there are various methods by which one may prevent a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack, but I have provided only a few..

Through this video, we have been able to get a clear understanding of many things. We have understood: - The technology behind the Azure outage. - How Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks work. - How to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks..

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