Court order help Microsoft tear down Waledoc botnet

In this case, Microsoft used a legal take down order for 277 .com domains. These domains were managing a peculiar form of Application-As-A-Service, or if you prefer, SPAM-As-A-Service. Believe me, I think this is wonderful, but it points out a particular weakness in cloud-based services ...

they are vulnerable to legal-takedown, DNS, or Domain misconfiguration, hijacking, or “force majeure” (see google: “Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage”).

Mitigation: Get your services from more than one cloud domain, make sure your cloud provider service level agreements cover these eventualities. Oh, and avoid providers with one data center located in the hurricane track.

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