My Documents Get Magazine Mention − 13 February, 2001
While I worked at Doubleclick as a Technical Writer I was responsible for creating tutorials to train new hires. On this day, I got into work and everyone was going nuts and saying I did something really bad.
It turns out that Doubleclick had a nemisis in Kitetoa.com, a hacker group from overseas. This team had been exploiting vunerabilities in IIS and posting what they found on Doubleclick servers on their website: http://www.kitetoa.com
Well, despite my insistance that the server be placed on an internal IP range, one of my documentation sites for new hires was placed on an external IP and they hacked it and posted it on their website under "Doubleclick Round 5" on the left. You can read the story and click on the link or check out the page here
I had offically been "black-marked." You can see my first name in the image but "Zimmerman at bzimmerman" is blacked-out. In a way, I was proud that hackers thought my documentation was so good that they felt they could be a tech guy by following it. I didn't get in trouble for the hack job, but the guy that made it unsecure did, he got fired after they made him patch the servers. I'm Famous!
It turns out that Doubleclick had a nemisis in Kitetoa.com, a hacker group from overseas. This team had been exploiting vunerabilities in IIS and posting what they found on Doubleclick servers on their website: http://www.kitetoa.com
Well, despite my insistance that the server be placed on an internal IP range, one of my documentation sites for new hires was placed on an external IP and they hacked it and posted it on their website under "Doubleclick Round 5" on the left. You can read the story and click on the link or check out the page here
I had offically been "black-marked." You can see my first name in the image but "Zimmerman at bzimmerman" is blacked-out. In a way, I was proud that hackers thought my documentation was so good that they felt they could be a tech guy by following it. I didn't get in trouble for the hack job, but the guy that made it unsecure did, he got fired after they made him patch the servers. I'm Famous!
