eBay wants to move quickly to build a fence around its headquarters in California for the safety and security of employees, according to the San Jose Mercury News. eBay told the city’s planning department it wants to build a “picket Read more
Some sellers are concerned about an upcoming change on eBay that is part of its Fall Seller Update. The mandate states: “Starting September 15, 2018, you will be required to use secure HTTPS content when you list items on eBay Read more
eBay told sellers it will turn off the tool that helps them determine if their listings are compliant with its browser security requirements. eBay cuts off descriptions in listings that are not compliant with its new HTTPS security requirement. eBay Read more
eBay is once again facing questions over its practice of allowing active content on its website. The Register said security firm Check Point recently found a vulnerability that could allow hackers to push malicious Javascript code towards targeted eBay users. Read more
A researcher reported a security flaw to eBay that would have enabled fraudsters to steal its members’ credentials, according to Motherboard, which wrote about the vulnerability on Monday. The publication said eBay confirmed it received the report on December 11th but Read more
Fraudsters are targeting eBay sellers right on eBay’s own website, according to Netcraft. The security publication published a screenshot of a page on eBay that fraudsters used in an attempt to steal eBay usernames and passwords from unsuspecting users. “The convincing Read more
A security researcher reported a vulnerability to eBay in June, according to the Kaspersky Labs news publication ThreatPost. The researcher, Aditya Sood, told ThreatPost eBay fixed the bug in August. “There was a cross-site scripting vulnerability in an eBay domain that Read more
eBay was the subject of an investigation by ABC News over its practices with regard to the ease in which it releases information about sellers. The news report was critical of eBay’s practice of providing seller names and locations to Read more
Rick Orloff spent 6 years at Apple before joining eBay last August to head security for its Marketplaces business. The hiring followed eBay’s security breach in which criminals gained unauthorized access to its corporate network and user data. The Associated Read more
Some eBay users became alarmed on Wednesday when eBay required them to reset their passwords. Spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the issue, telling EcommerceBytes the issue impacted a small subset of users – “far less than 0.1%,” he said. We first Read more
