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Microsoft blamed yesterday’s outage on a DDoS attack, which flooded the web link with junk requests.

But then,Microsoft’s own defensive measures amplified the attack, rather than mitigated it.

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Microsoft has been hit with another major outage, hot on the heels of last week’sCrowdstrike drama.

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