Re: Teen hacker controls ebay

[Jeffrey Denton <dentonj () gmail com>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:13:45 -0700 (PDT), Gaurang Pandya
<gaubrig () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen
> hacker "he had managed to become the new owner of
> eBay.de." can any one tell me what do they mean by
> this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its
> DNS Cache poisioning or something else??

The article says the teen requested changes to the DNS servers for
serveral sites.

$ whois -h whois.opensrs.net. ebay.de

[snip]

Registration Service Provider:
   DBMS VeriSign, dbms-support () verisign com
   800-579-2848 x4
   Please contact DBMS VeriSign for domain updates, DNS/Nameserver
   changes, and general domain support questions.

$

Doh.....

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