eBay CISO: Online attacks getting worse

If you think online attacks and phishing are getting worse, you're correct--at least according to Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer. On Tuesday, at a Microsoft-sponsored security symposium at Santa Clara University, Cullinane said that today's attacks are getting much harder to detect. "The phishing e-mails I see are extremely sophisticated." Even the grammar is improving in phishing attacks and he suggested that malware developers are being funded to develop new and improved attacks. He noted that many of these phishers are using Linux machines due to the platform's reliability and strength in running server software. eBay recently went thorough an internal analysis of its threat condition and found a large number of hacked, botnet computers, he said.

For more on the state of security at eBay:
- see the article in Infoworld