With the collected power of millions of these devices working in tandem, the hackers sent wave after wave of web request to Internet service company Dyn. (fortune.com)
Indeed, the first Windows Phone 7.8 update was apparently responsible for the Live Tiles to not only stop their updates but was causing the smartphones to use up their battery power more than normal due to the bug causing the Live Tiles to generate continuous web requests. (neowin.net)
Anticipated traffic spiking up to 20,000 web requests per minute as we dominated a day's news cycle and oriented web properties for same with Auto - Scaling and intense security reviews. (jobhero.com)