How to exploit DoubleClick without really trying

We just found a little hole in DoubleClick. You can get anyone running DoubleClick’s DART Enterprise AdServer to redirect to any other web site. Just find their ad server and edit the event.ng part so that it looks like this: http://adserver.somecompany.com/event.ng/Type=click&Redirect=http://www.YourWebSite.com Some porn site is doing that to us. We’re making DoubleClick fix it for […]

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September 10, 2002

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WARNING: PRODUCT ENDORSEMENT

Now, except for some Apple products, I don’t normally stand behind any product and endorse it…but after this past weekend, I feel obligated to endorse this one product… Colgate Tartar Control Plus Whitening toothpaste. Seriously. I went up to Maine to visit my grandmothers on Sunday afternoon. While sitting and talking with one of them, […]

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September 10, 2002

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DoubleClick is stupid

“Oh, your nightly jobs aren’t running because there’s an error in the log file. Our fine product isn’t smart enough to just IGNORE the errors. That would make sense. “Anyway, the error must be caused by something in one of your ad orders. Here’s a list of over 3000. Look through them for bad HTML […]

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September 9, 2002

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