Hate advertisements from the internet? Well, previous Tuesday there was lesser of these things. DoubleClick, an internet advertisement company suffered a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
The outage, first noticed at about 7 a.m. PDT, stemmed from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that targeted DoubleClick’s domain name server (DNS) system. The attack originated from “outside sources” that caused service disruption for DoubleClick’s ad service clients, according to company spokeswoman Jennifer Blum.
DoS attacks involve flooding a Web site’s servers with packets of information or sending streams of requests for information. As a result, servers cannot handle the load and shut down, causing blackouts that last for hours and sometimes for days. In this case, according to DoubleClick, the attackers targeted its DNS servers, which translate word-based Web addresses, such as www.doubleclick.com, into numeric Internet addresses.
DoubleClick joins Internet infrastructure company Akamai as targets for DNS attacks. In June, a DoS attack targeting Akamai’s DNS servers caused brief blackouts among the company’s biggest clients, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple Computer.
Source: CNET News.com
Actually, I was quite happy when DoubleClick went offline, lol. Less pesky advertisements for a day. Still advertisements are need to keep the web free.
Servers aren’t cheap and companies either use subscriptions or advertisements to keep alive. That’s why you see your favorite web sites with more than 1 advertisement per page sometimes.
What’s your say in it? For me, I am forced to like internet advertisements, I would like content to continue to be free. I guess that’s a small price to pay. What’s your say in it?
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