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Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?

  • From: Henry Linneweh
  • Date: Tue Jul 27 18:13:55 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 <[email protected]> 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.
> 
>