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Hacker May Be Exposing eBay Back Door

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-buy-a-hackerproof-door dept.

pacopico writes "A hacker specializing in eBay cracks has once again managed to masquerade as a company official on the site's message boards, according to The Register. A company spokesman denies that 'Vladuz's' repeated assaults on eBay point to a larger problem with the site's security. Of course, eBay two days ago claimed to have found a way to block Vladuz altogether, only to see him pop up again. The hacker himself made comments indicating that the company's email servers are connected somehow to the financial information eBay hosts."

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  1. Re:Don't blame bad coding for bad architecture. by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny how MS gets criticism on /. even though eBay has run on Java and Solaris since 2005.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/ebay_sun_i bm/

    and

    http://sun.ebay.com/odcs/custom.htm?template=popup

    So, yeah I'l agree with you - its probably bad architecure that's at fault.