In 1999, DoubleClick
bought the Abacus database,
which got them a
ton
of data
about our personal buying habits. They've
promised
not to correlate it with their banner-ad database, but that's not the
concern this week. This week, the concern is their network security.
Last week Thursday, the French site
Kitetoa
discovered three separate security issues on DoubleClick's network; the
company deleted the evidence of one immediately, but left the servers up
until Monday, when they mostly closed the other two. There are numerous
other issues but the question on everyone's mind should be, how long and
how far has DoubleClick been penetrated? And how long can we expect it
to continue?
