{"id":1574,"date":"2020-06-06T20:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2020-06-06T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:25:32","slug":"ebay-is-port-scanning-visitors-to-their-website-and-they-arent-the-only-ones-nem-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/ebay-is-port-scanning-visitors-to-their-website-and-they-arent-the-only-ones-nem-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay is port scanning visitors to their website &#8211; and they aren&#8217;t the only ones &#8211; nem.ec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nem.ec\/2020\/05\/24\/ebay-port-scanning\/\">Ebay &#8211; and others &#8211; have been caught<\/a> deploying port scanning on your machine when you visit their website. We&#8217;re not talking about scanning your gateway. We&#8217;re talking about scanning the very machine that you&#8217;re using to visit their website. How is this possible? Well, modern browsers support a technology known as <a href=\"https:\/\/webrtc.org\/\">WebRTC<\/a> that makes it possible to do video conferencing &#8211; among others &#8211; without installing software. This technology is what enables port scanning to be done by the website. To protect yourself, you should install browser add-ons to <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/webrtc-network-limiter\/npeicpdbkakmehahjeeohfdhnlpdklia?hl=en\">disable<\/a> WebRTC when not in use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nem.ec\/2020\/05\/24\/ebay-port-scanning\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/port-scan-header.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Websites are scanning for open ports on your PC to help fight fraud, but this data also flows into a massive, global tracking database.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nem.ec\/2020\/05\/24\/ebay-port-scanning\/\">Ebay is port scanning visitors to their website &#8211; and they aren&#8217;t the only ones &#8211; nem.ec<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebay &#8211; and others &#8211; have been caught deploying port scanning on your machine when you visit their website. We&#8217;re not talking about scanning your gateway. We&#8217;re talking about scanning the very machine that you&#8217;re using to visit their website. How is this possible? Well, modern browsers support a technology known as WebRTC that makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}