full-disclosure - Teen hacker controls ebay

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Message-ID: <20040908064037.E1285@verdict.schmangled.co.za>
From: noddie_x at g1b50n.co.za (noddie_x)
Subject: Teen hacker controls ebay

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.