
Ah, what a nice bit of camouflage
I wonder how long their marketing people worked on that one.
Let's pierce through that bit of "camouflage by techno babble", shall we? The bit that ensures Microsoft can claim it was transparent while hiding the truth from most end users and managers:
"This recent DDoS activity targeted layer 7 rather than layer 3 or 4"
In the ISO model, layer 7 is the application layer.
So, translated this means that this DDoS attack targeted Microsoft software. This DDoS was apparently able to use vulnerabilities in Microsoft's own software to, er, vaporise their Cloud. So, in addition to Microsoft software being a known local security risk to your average enterprise it's now also a proven exposure in the Cloud.
I can understand why they're cagey about it - it's bad timing as they're raising prices..