Microsoft No-IP takedown to strike malware draws protests
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Microsoft on Monday staged a takedown of two malware families abusing no-IP services but, in the mission to take down the botnets, legitimate servers depending on dynamic domain name services from No-IP were, as Dan Goodin of Ars Technica put it, caught in the crossfire. A substantial number of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages.