This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------66D6450EE88B31F4926C3CDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since there was a lot of talk about e-bay. You may be interested about the security of the site. The Wolf --------------66D6450EE88B31F4926C3CDB Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: owner-bugtraq@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Received: from mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com (mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com [24.221.95.31]) by mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com (8.9.3/) with ESMTP id PAA23253 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:40:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [207.126.127.68]) by mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA19604 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:40:29 GMT Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [207.126.127.68]) by lists.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECE61FE81; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from LISTS.SECURITYFOCUS.COM by LISTS.SECURITYFOCUS.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4646216 for BUGTRAQ@LISTS.SECURITYFOCUS.COM; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:52:11 -0800 Approved-By: aleph1@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Delivered-To: bugtraq@lists.securityfocus.com Received: from securityfocus.com (securityfocus.com [207.126.127.66]) by lists.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 77E531EE82 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7421 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2000 10:00:55 -0000 Delivered-To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Received: (qmail 7418 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2000 10:00:55 -0000 Received: from mail.cruzio.com (root@165.227.128.37) by securityfocus.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2000 10:00:55 -0000 Received: from loop (sa-165-227-138-45.cruzio.com [165.227.138.45]) by mail.cruzio.com with ESMTP id CAA23788 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:00:45 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: abennett@mail.cruzio.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000220015041.00be1790@mail.cruzio.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:00:04 -0800 Reply-To: Andrew Bennett Sender: Bugtraq List From: Andrew Bennett Subject: Re: ebay sends passwords in the clear X-To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM In-Reply-To: <200002161903.LAA12086@relay.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 At 11:03 AM 2/16/00 -0800, rfromm@cs.berkeley.eduwrote: >I've been trying to get ebay to do something about this for a month and a >half, to no avail. See http://avocado.dhs.org/ebpd/ for details, including an >ebay password sniffer. I noticed that ebay has a link on their Sign In feature page to sign in via SSL. It's not the most obvious link. An easy way to get there: - when prompted for your id/password, below the box, click the Sign In link - when prompted again for your id/password, below the box, click the 'here' link Of course, take note of the cookie that they will place on your computer. You'll have to close your browser, or it will expire in 40 minutes of inactivity, whichever comes first, according to the web page. Couple this with the 'my ebay' preferences as to what activities you want your password remembered, one might only have to enter their password once, during the SSL session where the cookie gets set. Andrew -- Andrew Bennett abennett@cruzio.com --------------66D6450EE88B31F4926C3CDB--