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At $100, the old-gen iPhone encryption-cracking tools are a bargain to hackers looking to pick up leftover forensics or police Wi-Fi data. Continue reading For sale: iPhone hacking tool, one previous (not very careful) owner
Buying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition. But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction, mainly because you may not have full control over who has access to your data. Continue reading Dirt-Cheap, Legit, Windows Software: Pick Two
This is not surprising: This year, I bought two more machines to see if security had improved. To my dismay, I discovered that the newer model machines — those that were used in the 2016 election — are running Windows CE and have USB ports, along with other components, that make them even easier to exploit than the older ones…. Continue reading Buying Used Voting Machines on eBay
Online shopping has become so popular that it has contributed to the fall of once giant businesses like Sears. But beneath the convenience of ordering goods at home is a mammoth cybersecurity problem that affects millions of users every year. You may t… Continue reading Staying Secure When Online Shopping: Getting the Basics Right
Istio, the service mesh for microservices from Google, IBM, Lyft, Red Hat and many other players in the open-source community, launched version 1.0 of its tools today. If you’re not into service meshes, that’s understandable. Few people are. But Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now. It […] Continue reading The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0
Thankfully, since we first reported on it, eBay has binned its cumbersome 2FA procedure and replaced it a much easier process. Continue reading How to set up 2FA on eBay – go do it now!
“I realized that I’d been selling my data for free for ages, and decided it was time to cash in.” Continue reading This Guy Is Selling All His Facebook Data on eBay
There is disquiet in the world of vacuum electronics, that something as simple as shipping a vacuum tube could now be very difficult to achieve. It’s a concern expressed among other places in a video by [Guitologist] that we’ve included below, and includes tales of vacuum tubes being impounded as either dangerous to ship, or not allowed to be shipped across international borders.
Upon investigation it appears that the common thread in all the stories lies with eBay’s Global Shipping Program, the centralised shipping service operated by the online auction giant. We reached out to eBay’s press office on the …read more
Continue reading Vacuum Tubes: Shipping Through EBay Now Challenging?
We all know the old saw: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is. But nowhere does this rule seem to break down as regularly as when we order parts. Bangood, AliExpress, and eBay are flooded with parts ready to be magically transported across the globe to our doorsteps, all at prices that seem to defy the laws of economics.
Most of these transactions go off without a hitch and we get exactly what we need to complete our Next Cool Thing. But it’s not always so smooth, as [Kerry Wong] recently discovered with an eBay order that …read more
The next in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Your invoice for eBay purchases (83998749832384616#) [random numbers] pretending to come from eBay <ebay@ebay.us> We are also seeing these pretending to come from all the other main English speaking eBay domains ebay@ebay.com.au ebay@ebay.co.uk ebay@ebay.com … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake eBay invoice delivers Locky ransomware
