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And sloppy code at that !!
Hmmm... alrighty then ...Let me see ...
when I "view source" with my browser I see the following line of code directly under the body tag (and lets remove the space in the body tag guys - reads: <body > should read: <body>) REALLY SLOPPY CODING!:
<body >
we get:
Name: 102.112.2O7.net
Address: 216.52.17.118
ARIN results for 216.52.17.118
( www.arin.net for looking up IP #'s)
Internap Network Services PNAP-8-98 (NET-216-52-0-0-1)
216.52.0.0 - 216.52.255.255
Omniture PNAP-SFJ-OMNITU-RM-01 (NET-216-52-17-0-1)
216.52.17.0 - 216.52.17.255
I don't know PayPal's relation with the company "Omniture" out of Orem, Utah with a simple class C 255 IP# block... but it looks to me like browser requests are going to third parties outside of the eBay/PayPal network !!
Do these folks know where their HTML code is going to ????
Do we have an HTML coder out there to see this also ??
Robert
Second, why are they still using the new software? Surely they have some sort of roll-back procedure in place for when things go completely bonkers after an upgrade.
- RE: It is not HTML code that is the problem...YES IT IS ... READ THIS ....
- by October 12, 2004 2:47 PM PDT
- Could this code be coming from vulnerabilities in the MS Internet Explorer web browser ?
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- No
- by tubedogg October 12, 2004 3:48 PM PDT
- Your browser has nothing to do with it. I don't use MSIE and I am only intermittently able to login...and regardless that wouldn't explain why my debit card keeps getting declined.
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(7 Comments)See the story:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+warns+of+22+new+security+flaws/2100-1002_3-5406550.html
One of the patches corrects scripts running in image tags, the image tag seen, directly below the incorrect body tag, was an image tag with a script attached to it.
The MS critical updates when applied appears to have corrected the logon capability w/ a PayPal account
Are we seeing a MS I.E. vulnerability, which is somehow hitting PayPal ?
This PayPal outage thing started Friday, and aren't the BANKS CLOSED ON COLUMBUS DAY ??? !!!
Comments anyone ?