eBay Nixing Microsoft&#39;s Passport
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has lost another partner to market its single sign-on services after auction giant eBay (Quote, Chart) said it will no longer support Passport and its .
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The online auctioneer notifies customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service.
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The decision by eBay to discontinue support for Microsoft Passport in early January is a major blow to Microsoft&#39;s identity management initiative for online commerce.
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Secondary IPS site in shared credentials snafu Digital certificate glitches have affected the operation of a secondary website used for UK passport applications.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Banks, online merchants, and technology vendors must work together to prevent security problems like phishing attacks and data breaches, eBayÂ President and CEO Meg Whitman said Thursday. Whitman called on large e-mail service providers, such as Yahoo and Microsoft, to reject e-mails supposedly coming from eBay or subsidiary PayPal that do not include domain key signing authentications on them. EBay now puts the digital signatures on all the e-mail it sends, amounting to "billions" of pieces of e-mail a year, Whitman said at a Visa USA security summit in Washington, D.C. Phishing attacks, in which a scammer sends fake e-mail to entice recipients into giving up passwords and other information, remain a major concern at eBay and PayPal, Whitman said. No longer the domain of small-time crooks with bad grammar, phishing schemes are becoming sophisticated tools of organized crime, she added. Even those customers who recognize phishing schemes can get disgusted and stop doing business with the targeted businesses, she added. "It erodes the trust we've tried so hard to build," Whitman said. "We need to make it so hard for the bad guys that they ultimately think it's not worth their time to mess with our customers." Whitman also called on banks to share information about known scams and data breaches more quickly with third-party payers like PayPal. In many cases, banks share the information with each other immediately, but it takes "days or weeks or months" to reach businesses like PayPal. With faster information sharing, more scams could be prevented instead of dealt with after the fact, she said. The eBay online auction model works because most people are basically good and not out to scam others, Whitman said. However, Internet scammers continue to look for new ways to make money, she said. "Security on the Internet is actually an arms race in the classic form," she said. Earlier in the conference, Visa USA President and CEO John Philip Coghlan told the audience of more than 400 business, government, and academic leaders that payment security must become more of a strategic priority for businesses. All organizations involved in the payments system need to invest in security, he said. Maintaining trust is "emerging as one of the critical business issues of the 21st century," Coghlan said. Visa is working on pilot programs to protect card security, including encryption and dynamically generated authorization information on payment cards, he said.
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Although it stops short of an all-out ban like some wildlife activists are looking for, eBay said Tuesday it will no longer allow cross-border sales of ivory.
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Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software &amp; Information Industry Association (SIIA)&#160;to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.
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InfoWorld - Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)Â to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.
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Microsoft plans to block access to some features by unlicensed versions of OS.
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eBay says it will soon drop support for Microsoft&#39;s Passport for log-in to the site and discontinuing alerts sent via Microsoft&#39;s .
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ISP rejects Microsoft antispam plan amid concerns from open-source community.
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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay  Microsoftâs technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced that they are discontinuing their support for it. Users of eBay would not be able to use their Passport Ids to login to eBay starting late ...
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday  that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service,  originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker  the gatekeeper of Web identities.
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According to the India Times, eBay exerted &quot;tremendous diplomatic pressure&quot; on the authorities for the release of Bajaj -- an India-born American.
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The title of most powerful businesswoman is going, going, gone, to eBay Inc.&#39;s Meg Whitman. The president and chief executive of the auction website surpassed
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With the closure of IETF&#39;s MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft&#39;s Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues
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Starting late January 2005 eBay will no longer support Microsoft&#39;s Passport and .NET Alerts. The Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page