Cloud Computing: Microsoft’s Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate
February 23, 2013
Grazed from PCWorld. Author: John Ribeiro.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company also reported problems with its Xbox Music and Video Store services. The service problems come on a day the company said it was recently a victim of a cyberattack similar to ones that targeted Apple and Facebook.
"Beginning Friday, February 22 at 12:44 PM PST, Storage experienced a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS operations (SSL traffic) due to an expired certificate," Microsoft said on its Windows Azure service dashboard. HTTP traffic was not impacted, the company said. It said it executed steps to update the SSL certificate and expected HTTPS traffic to notice gradual recovery in many sub-regions…
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, a combination of the HTTP and SSL/TLS protocols, is an Internet communications protocol for secure network communications. "Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers," the company said…
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