According to the reports, "eBay Garage, will run an embedded application that will scan users' PCs for any viruses or spyware" and "the user will be directed to the site of a security vendor." And "eBay is partnering with two, as yet unnamed, security companies."
One of the companies will probably be Symantec. And based on past history, the other company is likely to be owned by eBay, or eBay will have a financial stake in it, or eBay has plans to buy or invest in it.
The eBay Garage program will be run under the auspices of Dave Cullinane, eBay Marketplaces CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). It appears one of his last assignments was CISO of Washington Mutual.
To any serious user of eBay we ask, 'do you really want eBay code monkey written applications loaded onto your hard drive, and running around in your computer?'
"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems." Admiral Grace Hopper
According to the reports, "eBay Garage, will run an embedded application that will scan users' PCs for any viruses or spyware" and "the user will be directed to the site of a security vendor." And "eBay is partnering with two, as yet unnamed, security companies."
One of the companies will probably be Symantec. And based on past history, the other company is likely to be owned by eBay, or eBay will have a financial stake in it, or eBay has plans to buy or invest in it.
The eBay Garage program will be run under the auspices of Dave Cullinane, eBay Marketplaces CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). It appears one of his last assignments was CISO of Washington Mutual.
To any serious user of eBay we ask, 'do you really want eBay code monkey written applications loaded onto your hard drive, and running around in your computer?'
"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems." Admiral Grace Hopper
eBay Garage - Do you really want eBay IN your computer?
Do you really want eBay IN your computer?
24 February 2009
EventHorizon1984
Following in the wake of the hack of eBay 3rd party service provider Auctiva, eBay has announce a protection service.
According to the reports, "eBay Garage, will run an embedded application that will scan users' PCs for any viruses or spyware" and "the user will be directed to the site of a security vendor." And "eBay is partnering with two, as yet unnamed, security companies."
One of the companies will probably be Symantec. And based on past history, the other company is likely to be owned by eBay, or eBay will have a financial stake in it, or eBay has plans to buy or invest in it.
The eBay Garage program will be run under the auspices of Dave Cullinane, eBay Marketplaces CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). It appears one of his last assignments was CISO of Washington Mutual.
To any serious user of eBay we ask, 'do you really want eBay code monkey written applications loaded onto your hard drive, and running around in your computer?'
"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."
Admiral Grace Hopper
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