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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Microsoft's Web site under attack

"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," reports TechWeb.

Comment: Bad day on the Web yesterday: I couldn't get the Guardian site consistently in the morning, and Blogger wouldn't post anything. The McDonald's item time-stamped 11:27 AM certainly wasn't visible until much later....

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