DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack

YetAnotherName writes "The Washington Times is reporting that everyone's most beloved online advertising distributor, DoubleClick, was subject to a DoS attack crippling the company's DNS servers, and preventing up to 75% of advertising from making it to web pages and surfers' eyes."

Sad news

[Lord Grey]

... subject to a DoS attack crippling the company's DNS servers ...

It is truly sad when Internet blackhats target a large, upstanding company like ....

Oh, wait. It was DoubleClick [doubleclick.com]?

Can I donate some computer time?

On behalf..

[Anonymous Coward]

On behalf of the Slashdot community, I would just like to say that this was indeed a terrible thing. I, and I believe I speak for everyone here when I say this, greatly missed the DoubleClick ads. Their intrusive nature, attempted trickery, and bright flashy lights are what make my internet experience what it is.

I hope that whoever did this terrible act is brought to justice, as such a horrible thing cannot go unpunished!

Re:Sad news

[dfurie]

I think you're on to something. I think its time to give up on SETI and Folding@home and make a new distributed project to better man-kind; a doubleclick DDoS'er.

How awful!

[TheEvilOverlord]

Oh the humanity of it!

LOL

Damn

[foidulus]

All those people clikcing links for money must have really gone overboard this time, they will probably make more money than me.

Heh

[mfh]

Off the record, WOO HOO!!!
On the record, Punch the Monkey and Win $20!

Re:Sad news

[Compholio]

When they arrest the guy who did it we should put together a paypal donation to take care of his legal costs.

Re:Sad news

[eegad]

Was this some other DoS attack besides posting their URL on Slashdot?

Re:On behalf..

[boudie]

I guess the persons who did this really hate our freedom to watch advertisements.

Re:Sad news

[adam mcmaster]

It's almost as if they don't think of the people visiting their site as customers

That's because they don't. They were referring to the people who pay them to place their ads; the people who click on the ads would be Doubleclick's customers' customers.

I thought there were some ads missing...

[Anonymous Coward]

And here I thought that my ad-blocker was actually working. Silly me.

127.0.0.1

[bstadil]

I am glad that my machine didn't inadvertently participate in their DDOS attack. I would have been hammering away at 127.0.0.1

Oh boy...

[nebulus4]

First they are DDOS'ed and now they are going to be /.'ed.. what a day..

But I wanted...

[krhainos]

... to enter to recieve my free iPod Mini

Re:Sad news

[Anonymous Coward]

Take comfort in the fact that while you wish you could be that dumb, he wishes he could also mangle humor to the point that no one finds it funny.

Re:3rd worst servers in existence ?

[skurk]

*bangs head to keyboard*
Must use preview button
Must use preview button
Must use preview button

What I tried to say, was "Don't forget one of the most agressive advertisers in time, X10", but the spontanity is somewhat gone now.

Oh well.

Re:Sad news

[suckmysav]

"Can I donate some computer time?"

Sure you can, it's real easy. Even a complete n00b could figure out how to do it. You just load Windows on your PC & say 'yes' to the next trojan email that lands in your inbox.

Re:On behalf..

[halivar]

I, and I believe I speak for everyone here when I say this, greatly missed the DoubleClick ads.

Let us have a moment of silence, and then I shall buy an X10 camera in their memory.

doubleclicked

[pizza_milkshake]

doubleclick obviously isn't using the DDOSBlock extension for Firefox.

my work here is done

[Zoko Siman]

*closes command prompt*

enough joking; this is a real tragedy!

[commodoresloat]

25% of DoubleClick's advertising is still getting through.

Re:Sad news

[simcop2387]

Changing the channel on TV during a commercial is stealing
-- Ted Turner

Re:Sad news

[shaitand]

I felt that way once, but then I figured out the great secret. Whatever the features are of IE that give you that comfort, bitch here on slashdot about Mozilla not doing it. BAM within 5minutes you'll have 12 extensions that make moz/ff behave just that way. Be sure to mention IE does whatever it is though, if you don't it won't work as well.

Seriously, try it.

Believe it or not, it usually gets a faster response than "I just wish linux did... windows does it".

Re:Quick refresher on how the "FREE" sites work...

[LordLucless]

You're right. In the same vein, if you go the toilet during an ad break on TV, you are actually stealing! You are costing those TV stations money. Unless you want to lose free-to-air television, you must only leave the couch for toilet/snack breaks during officially sanctioned time periods.

wow, does anyone actually care?

[nuintari]

The only reason anyone is likely to care is because it has made surfing very pleasent lately. I'm sorry, its illegal, its wrong, and it hurts networks to deliver the package of shit they are sending dclick's way. Still, advertising is fucking out of control, and it needs to lighten up. Since they don't listen to us, some of us have taken to punishing them for it. I applaud their efforts.

I wanna buy the parties responsable a beer.