Microsoft Confirms Skype Outage Is Global, DDoS Attack Suggested | Latest News

Microsoft has confirmed that it has to do with the current pause in Skype, which can be caused by a DDoS attack. The company claims that its communications application suffers from connectivity problems. Although the problem does not affect all users, this is reported as a global downtime.

"It is clear that DDoS continues to shock even global organizations, including the recent attack with Skype. Continue to rely on traditional information security and / or human intervention solutions to address the growing epidemic. DDOS proves devastating For companies to be. If the recent events are confirmed again, we need a proactive and automatic protection to keep your business connected to the available DDoS internet.

"The conclusion is that DDoS is virtually any right-handed business, a fact that a company must be prepared to defend. And not only do attacking organizations need to worry. Attacks small saturate that most of the IT and network Security even acknowledged as DDoS is more common than. In fact, most DDoS are less than five minutes and less than 1Gbps. These attacks are usually short to avoid detection of most owned solutions to soften DDoS and domestic. "