ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
Henry Linneweh
hrlinneweh at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 27 22:10:45 UTC 2004
While I disagree with the method of the attacker, I
can understand the reasoning behind an attack on a
company that is considered a spyware company,
doubleclick certainly has turned up more than once on
my version of spybot as a site to block.....
-Henry
--- Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Jul27.html
> DoubleClick spokeswoman Jennifer Blum said the
> attack targeted the
> company's domain name servers (DNS) -- machines
> that help direct
> Internet traffic -- causing "severe service
> disruptions" for all 900 of
> its customers. Blum said the outage was caused by
> a distributed
> denial-of-service attack, in which hackers use the
> firepower of
> thousands of hijacked computers to flood a Web
> site with so many bogus
> Web page requests that it renders the site
> unavailable to legitimate
> users.
> [...]
> The FBI is not investigating the incident because
> DoubleClick has not
> filed a report, said bureau spokeswoman Megan
> Baroska.
>
>
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