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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. FUD by User+956 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The hacker himself made comments indicating that the company's email servers are connected somehow to the financial information eBay hosts.

    $100 says this guy has a huge short on ebay stock.

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  2. Time for a new plan.... by CasperIV · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe ebay should just pay the guy to tell them how to fix their system and be done with it. You know that this will all end with an exploit for ebay being discovered and someone getting sued.

  3. ridiculous by ILuvRamen · · Score: 1, Interesting

    wow, that's quite an interested technical statement to say they found a way to block ANYONE forever. Anyone can sit down at any computer and you can't tell the difference. The only way would be if he's in jail and apparently he's not so I wonder but genius at eBay wrote up that statement. Btw in case you didn't know, eBay owns Paypal so obviously their general IT and technical designing isn't so great already.

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  4. ebay is a haven... by null+etc. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Proof: http://havenforscammers.com/

  5. Their sign-in server needs some work too by Pedahzur · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I posted this a few days ago. E-bay customer service still hasn't shown any indication they intend to fix this problem: E-Bay's sing in server can assist phishers.

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  6. Re:Don't blame bad coding for bad architecture. by AJWM · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

    Go to ebay.com's main page. Check out some of the links like "register" or "pay". See that "eBayISAPI.dll" in the cgi URL?

    They use Microsoft too, unless someone with a bizarre sense of humor has a file named eBayISAPI.dll on Solaris...

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