Gone phishing
Yesterday I've received messages by Ebay and by the company that hosts the ntrack.com server that the server was being used for a phishing scheme involving Ebay.
Apparently some hacker planted a few pages on the web server that with an address like ntrack.com/signin.ebay.com. I assume (I made a backup copy of the pages but I didn't test where they pointed) that as with any phishing scheme the page mocked the login page of Ebay, users landed on the page after clicking on a link in a spammed email message that appeared to come from Ebay and entered their login info enabling the phishers to steal their login and password. The mocked Ebay page was already active on the server, and it looked like they were also preparing a mockup of Paypal... where real money is involved.
These days having a server that sits on the internet is a very scary proposition.
I always wonder when seeing this kind of things why people can't find more productive (not to mention legal) ways to spend their time. At least this time it wasn't as ugly as a day in august 2004 when the server was hacked and the main page (or was it the forum main page?) was replaced by a page that made a myriad of gay-porn popup pages appear.