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| Junkyardjims |
 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:38 pm |
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Hacker taunts eBay with attacks
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The auction site has been the target of a hacker called Vladuz, whose actions are causing concern to the website's users and owners alike. Danny Bradbury reports.
Who is Vladuz? Since at least the start of this year, eBay has been looking for this hacker from eastern Europe. According to evidence seen by the Guardian, he is able to see the listings of and listen to telephone conference calls within eBay. Sources in the hacking community say that he claims to be listening in on some meetings held by eBay chief executive Meg Whitman.
Says eBay: "This fraudster is known to eBay, Romanian authorities and the US Secret Service who are all working towards securing an arrest and successful prosecution."
Concerned to reassure users, it adds: "The central eBay site is and always has been secure." The company says, however, that the "phone system is 'open' because we conduct calls with external parties who need access to it. Confidential calls made through our system require separate security information."
Despite the reassurances, this is not the first time Vladuz has embarrassed eBay. And he is extremely good at covering his tracks. "He covers himself very well with Gmail, and uses anonymous proxies [remote computers] to access those accounts too," says David Steiner, editor of online auction news publisher Auctionbytes.
He used a thread on the auction watching site Pheebay.com to boast of the Noyce incident and also to claim responsibility for the credit card hack. On that thread, he pointed to a February report about Noyce contacting German scam monitoring site Falle-Internet.de. The letter threatened them with legal action unless they took down some eBay-related pages. "Revenge time," said Vladuz.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/25/ebay.hacking |
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:52 pm |
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My my my. Pheebay in the UK national press.....
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Last edited by sunray on Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:10 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:09 pm |
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So it seems Vladuz has been able to hack telephone communications at eBay and even overhear conference calls involving Meg Whitman. 
Is anyone thinking what I am thinking? Which phone system would that be that a computer hacker can break in to?
Seems Skype may have cost eBay more than just the odd Billion..... |
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| Junkyardjims |
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:02 pm |
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It's good to see a more thorough and indepth report for a change, rather than one that's favoured towards eBay spokespeople.
Quote: Seems Skype may have cost eBay more than just the odd Billion.....
Probably similar to what the C5 did to Clive Sinclair. |
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