Archives for February, 2005.

Can't Even Trust Ebay's Servers Anymore

By Howard | Published February 23rd, 2005

eBay Phishing scams, eh? This is a clever one. The eBay site is redirecting requests to external domains. An attacker can build a querystring that will cause a valid ebay.com domain to redirect to an attacker’s page: http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=RedirectToDomain&DomainUrl=http://www.attackers-domain.com/malware/ All they need do is obfuscate the URL to hide what is really happening, like so: http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=RedirectToDomain&DomainUrl=%68%74%74%70%3A%2F%2F%68%6F%6D%65%2E%64%75%72%64%6C%65%2E%63%6F%6D%2F%76%61%72%73%2E%61%73%70…

No need to go out…

By Howard | Published February 14th, 2005

No need to go out, as there’s been a lot to enjoy on TV over the last few months, the majority of it imported from America. I read an article a while ago (in the Times, I think) that pointed out that the UK and the US are going through a change of competency when…

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