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Akamai Linux Servers Protect Microsoft.com from DoS Attacks

Calendar Aug 29, 2003 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Akamai's Linux-based servers to protect its Microsoft.com Web site and reduce the site's vulnerability to viruses, worms and denial of service attacks. Microsoft has been in turmoil over the past couple of weeks, after at least three significant worm and virus . . . Akamai's Linux-based servers to protect its Microsoft.com Web site and reduce the site's vulnerability to viruses, worms and denial of service attacks. Microsoft has been in turmoil over the past couple of weeks, after at least three significant worm and virus attacks. The Microsoft.com Web site was also brought down on at least two separate occasions after a distributed denial of service (DoS) attack. Deploying Linux-based servers is significant because the open-source operating system is an arch-rival to Windows.

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