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Re: Teen hacker controls ebay
From: Johannes Bretscher <bretscher () 5sl org>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:01:44 +0200
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:47:25AM +0200, noddie_x wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Gaurang Pandya wrote: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??probly did it thru some auto-dns system that works on web based forms and confirmations emails. they normally work on request ticket numbers, if you can find a way to break the confirmation parser, bob's your uncle. cant see anywhere that he attacked a service.
He did not attack anything. He simply requested a Domain Transfer. His provider did not check and sent the request to denic. Denic asked the Provider of eBay.de who did not respond several times. This was regarded as implicit ACK. So this guy was the owner of ebay.de -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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