eBay scam hits hard

TheRegister reports that a spate of e-mails inviting eBay customers to divulge usernames and passwords to a scam site reached epidemic proportions last week. The e-mails invited customers to hand over confidential details to a site called change-eBay.com, which has nothing to do with the legitimate eBay.com site.

In the scam, users were told that their files had been tampered with and were directed to the fraudulent site to "update your eBay billing file". It`s unclear how many people were taken in.

Others hit by similar scams in the past month include PayPal, recently bought by eBay, and Hotmail. [TheRegister]

Nortel Networks has launched two new products in the Alteon Switched Firewall range to protect enterprise and service provider customers against the increasingly sophisticated attacks made on network systems. This includes unauthorised access, viruses, hacking and attempts to run malicious code, all of which have become common events for network administrators.

The new models are the Alteon Switched Firewall 5710 for large enterprises and carriers, the 5408 for medium-sized businesses and the 5100 for enterprises requiring an entry-level solution.

The Alteon Switched Firewall 5710 includes more than four gigabits of throughput with the ability to support one million concurrent sessions and establish 32 000 sessions per second. For enterprises that require fewer active sessions and do not require gigabit connectivity, the Alteon Switched Firewall 5408 offers throughput of 600Mbps, with the ability to process 170 000 concurrent sessions and handle flash crowd traffic. It also features built-in firewall load balancing and health checking.

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