full-disclosure - Teen hacker controls ebay

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Message-ID: <413FA137.13254.831623EF@localhost>
From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: Teen hacker controls ebay

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@...isign.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