The winner of a recent hacking contest is offering the computer he broke into for sale on eBay, possibly with the Microsoft Vista attack code he used intact. In a Monday listing , Shane Macaulay is selling the Fujitsu U810 laptop he won last Friday during the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest. His listing claims that exploit code could probably still be extracted from the machine. …
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eBay Earnings Preview: Marketplaces Segment Could Continue To Drag …Seeking AlphaThough we expect eBay's payments division PayPal to report strong growth, its marketplaces segment is likely to show sub-par growth. This, in all likelihood, could be due to the continued impact of the security breach and changes in the Google SEO …eBay Earnings Preview: Marketplaces Segment…
WLS-TV eBay celebrating 20 years of online shoppingWLS-TVIt has been 20 years since a software engineer launched the website on Labor Day weekend. Pierre Omidyar first called the site "Auctionweb." A broken laser pointer was the first item sold. A collector bought it for $14.38. Auctionweb became eBay in 1997.eBay celebrates 20th birthdayTucson News NowEbay…
Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush The received wisdom is that online shopping would kill off the high street. So the arrival of online auction house eBay in the heart of London’s West End yesterday was greeted with bemusement by Christmas shoppers and passers-by. “I’ve…
Investorplace.com EBay auction for lunch with Warren Buffett now up . . .New York Daily NewsHow much would you pay to take the third-richest man in the world to lunch ? Warren Buffett's annual charity auction began on eBay Sunday night, with early bidders pushing the total to more than $160,000 by Monday evening. Last…
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eBay Find of the Day: 1988 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma has world's strangest turn …Autoblog (blog)As it turns out though – and as we are amply reminded by the ceaseless wonders of eBay Motors – the 1988 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma was moving the needle in terms of interior design, at least. In this meticulously well-documented example,…