Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick

Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick
Brian Krebs, Washington Post 2004-07-27

DoubleClick Inc., the company that provides online advertising services for some of the nation's most popular Web sites, was the target of a sophisticated

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

I am glad that finally DDoS attacks benefit the general public. Double-Click and Akamai serve up pop-ups and annoying ads that most users are glad to have gone. I use 'Firefox' to do what this DDoS did, but that does it all the time with AdBlock....

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-08-01
Anonymous

i'm agree with you, net users are upset because there's too many popups spy or adware. That's the job of doubleclick to protect us against them otherwise... we must attack ... Using any spyblaster is a worry... a shame

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-28
Anonymous (1 replies)

So, because CNN.com could not load the banner advertising from Doubleclick, the CNN page wouldn't load? That seems like poor website design. ...

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-28
Anonymous

my job requires 90% of my workday on the net.

and everytime i get those FU****G popups

i want to scream!

It is poetic justice in a way....

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-28
mdf

Doubleclick might do well to beef up their DNS servers. All four are located in the continental U.S. They could consider switching to anycast like ultradns.net and some of the root servers....

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-28
Anonymous

First the article says the attack was a flood of web-page requests, then it says it was a DNS attack? What gives?...

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-30
Anonymous

As the story says, it blocked what most people consider the internet. Sad state, most consider it to be all advertising....

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-07-31
Anonymous

I'd say it's poor browser design. Netscape used to give cute little broken icons to content that timed out. Maybe newer browsers don't draw the page at all? I have noticed that Opera won't display the page at all, if some lame adserver is timing out....

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-08-02
Anonymous

For what reason,hasn't Double click filed a report?...

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2004-08-02
Anonymous

Well, at least for a few hours the web had less spyware, ads, and popups. If only they could sustain the attack indefinitely. :-)...

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Internet Attack Targets DoubleClick 2006-06-19
Anonymous

this attack that took out 90% of the internet, only targeted the ads that slow my internet use daily. doubleclick is a name that I see daily when my spyware cleans my computer of unwanted advertising. hooray for some hackers,...

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