johnnymk

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...1/article.html

Programs covering the full range of hacking software, from Trojans to keyloggers to step-by-step tutorials on how to effectively hack Web sites and personal information have now entered auction house eBay, raising the concern of one security company.

"It's a simple matter of searching for it now" said Magida Ezzat, marketing communications manager at PC Tools.

"It's also very, very cheap - it's possible to even get it for free." Although the programs have become readily available on the Internet outside of eBay, the concern is that eBay is a site accessed by the general public, and the sale of hacking software through it is raising awareness with new audiences. "People don't need to be highly technical to access and use hacking software," Ezzat said.

Although awareness of how to obtain and use hacking software is on the rise, policing and preventing the sale of the software remains difficult.

"For a Web site as large as eBay, policing is a near-impossible task," Ezzat said. Despite this, security-focused Web sites such as eBay are aware of the problem. "Hacking software that was available yesterday has been taken off the auctions today," Ezzat said.

The good news is that hacking software auctions aren't very popular at this stage. A search of the eBay Web site reveals that very few auctions featuring hacking software have any bids.

Jeffbx

What, for people too lazy to figure out where to get them for free?

Markel

I had a couple of "interesting" emails pop up in several accounts recently. Supposedly they were from someone that had an item for sale, saying he had more of the item I had bid on (the auction was still active) for sale and asking me to make him an offer. I took a look at the bidder list on the auction and noticed a username that matches my Yahoo, Gmail, (and Comcast) user id (but is NOT my eBay id). I messaged the person with the user id, explaining the situation and asking him to verify that his email address was correct (and he replied that it was). I then forwarded the message to eBay "Safe Harbor", and they replied that it was "Spam" (no eBay account registered with the source email address). I figure that the spammer looked at the user id of bidders and tried to guess at their email address. So when he saw user id "CSMITH", he tried emailing CSMITH@Yahoo.com, CSMITH@Gmail.com, etc. with his "offer". But my eBay id is "CHARLIE_S" (not really - just for example), so he was barking up the wrong tree.

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