Thursday, August 04, 2005

Phishers Hack eBay

A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This is a step up from being directed to a fake website to log into eBay in the first place. So, if you get an email which has a link that takes you to eBay, delete that email. This latest effort makes it even more difficult for the users to detect a phishing attack as the user is being taken to a genuine page and then to the hacker’s website. What other ways will they find to rob us?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am fairly certain this has happened to ebay before. If so then its time to fire the IT manager. That would step 1 at correcting the problem

August 05, 2005 12:08 AM  

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