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eBay Germany Gets DNS Hijacked Posted by Pile (5272 views) [E-Mail link] [Technology] Most "phishing" (attempts to coerce stupid consumers out of personal information) largely rely on e-mail and spoofing of web sites. In Germany, some enterprising criminals actually managed to co-opt the DNS for eBay Germany for a few hours and redirect legitimate traffic to a fake site. Obviously eBay is quite upset about this, and rightly so. Someone dropped the ball here and allowed an unauthorized DNS change for a major site. If the top-level ISPs can't be trusted to follow security procedures, what are we left with? I am equally upset. I was high bidder on the Hindenburg-embossed toaster cozy until this snafu.     Comments   Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments:     1 Article displayed.

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