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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. 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.

    1. Re:Time for a new plan.... by needacoolnickname · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Isn't that frowned upon?

      Breaking in. Taunting someone and then getting paid to fix things? Bad precendece I would think.

  2. Not an auction site... by Radon360 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...eBay is just a venue for people to exchange items, such as malicious code into an unexpecting user's browser.

    When will they learn to do something simple like disallow META tags in item descriptions to stop redirects to sites with malicious code, rather than to hide such things and disavow any responsibility.