Re: Teen hacker controls ebay

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Jeffrey Denton wrote:

> 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
<<snip>>
> Doh.....

Issuing code-signing certs in Microsoft's name to non-MS folk.

Reassiging a major eBay domain to Joe Schmoe just because he filled in 
a web form.



Is there anything in common here apart from incompetence and obvious 
lack of trustworthiness of this company's core business operations?




Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html