Hey guys,
I posted this in the DNS in the Wild Thread, but I am really worried so asking for help here
I was just searching these forums for help on gaming headphones and found a link in a thread for a new egg set of Sen HD555....they were out of stock. So I clicked on the Auto Notify.
Thats when I got this warning (had to type it out since can't get it to copy paste)
You Have attempted to establish a connection with "cm.newegg.com". However, the security certificate presented belongs to "a248.e.akami.net". It is possible though unlikely that someone may be trying to intercept you communication with this website.
If you suspect the certificate shown does not belong to "cm.newegg.com", Please cancel the connection and notify the site administrator.
I of course just hit cancel
Both link in the DNS in the wild thread say I am safe, but this happened and is still hapening to me on newegg even after closing out Firefox. I am using firefox so lucky enough it warned me.
I have two questions.
1) since I hit cancel do I have anything to worry about? i.e. what was it sending to newegg
2) how do I make myself safe now? since even though those site say I am....obviously I am not?
Thanks in advance for your help.
update merged in from other thread
Hey Guys,
Last night I had a little scare while shopping on newegg. You can read about here in this thread
Thread from last night
Amazingly despite the time that morning alot of Anandtech people helped me out and belayed my fears.....and I listened, I thank them for there help but it appears they were wrong.
This afternoon I returned home form work to find the shopping cart that I had selected from newegg was empty, also the headphones in the thread above were not on auto notify as I had set them to be.
My suspicions aroused I called Newegg.
I talked to a representative called Ileana who checked up on my concern about the certificate from "a248.e.akami.net" with her supervisor and the IT department.
After a very long time waiting I was told that Newegg does not use Akima and that the only certificate valid was from VERISIGN!!!!!!
After being told this I immediately checked to see if I had any orders placed using my credit card. Luckily for me it has been awhile since my last bill and the credit card on file with newegg is not valid anymore. Since my cart was empty I only assume that they had unsuccessfully tried to make a purchase since Ileana couldn't tell me.
I have changed my password for my newegg account and will definitely check the certificate in the future.
Ileana assured me that the IT department would be looking into the other site and that Newegg might put a warning up on there homepage.
Beware guys whether this was DNS Poisoning or a bad link in the forums I don't know(not going to hit that headphone link in the thread referenced in my first thread about this to check it) According to the link in the DNS in the wild thread I am safe from DNS Posioning but this happened anyways so beware!!!
This was what I was told buy the newegg rep if I am in any way wrong then I apologize but she told me not to trust any Akima certificate only ones that said Newegg and were from VERISIGN!!!!
Hope this helps you all
I've merged the two threads together. Knock it off with the name calling. - Anandtech Moderator DrPizza
I posted this in the DNS in the Wild Thread, but I am really worried so asking for help here
I was just searching these forums for help on gaming headphones and found a link in a thread for a new egg set of Sen HD555....they were out of stock. So I clicked on the Auto Notify.
Thats when I got this warning (had to type it out since can't get it to copy paste)
You Have attempted to establish a connection with "cm.newegg.com". However, the security certificate presented belongs to "a248.e.akami.net". It is possible though unlikely that someone may be trying to intercept you communication with this website.
If you suspect the certificate shown does not belong to "cm.newegg.com", Please cancel the connection and notify the site administrator.
I of course just hit cancel
Both link in the DNS in the wild thread say I am safe, but this happened and is still hapening to me on newegg even after closing out Firefox. I am using firefox so lucky enough it warned me.
I have two questions.
1) since I hit cancel do I have anything to worry about? i.e. what was it sending to newegg
2) how do I make myself safe now? since even though those site say I am....obviously I am not?
Thanks in advance for your help.
update merged in from other thread
Hey Guys,
Last night I had a little scare while shopping on newegg. You can read about here in this thread
Thread from last night
Amazingly despite the time that morning alot of Anandtech people helped me out and belayed my fears.....and I listened, I thank them for there help but it appears they were wrong.
This afternoon I returned home form work to find the shopping cart that I had selected from newegg was empty, also the headphones in the thread above were not on auto notify as I had set them to be.
My suspicions aroused I called Newegg.
I talked to a representative called Ileana who checked up on my concern about the certificate from "a248.e.akami.net" with her supervisor and the IT department.
After a very long time waiting I was told that Newegg does not use Akima and that the only certificate valid was from VERISIGN!!!!!!
After being told this I immediately checked to see if I had any orders placed using my credit card. Luckily for me it has been awhile since my last bill and the credit card on file with newegg is not valid anymore. Since my cart was empty I only assume that they had unsuccessfully tried to make a purchase since Ileana couldn't tell me.
I have changed my password for my newegg account and will definitely check the certificate in the future.
Ileana assured me that the IT department would be looking into the other site and that Newegg might put a warning up on there homepage.
Beware guys whether this was DNS Poisoning or a bad link in the forums I don't know(not going to hit that headphone link in the thread referenced in my first thread about this to check it) According to the link in the DNS in the wild thread I am safe from DNS Posioning but this happened anyways so beware!!!
This was what I was told buy the newegg rep if I am in any way wrong then I apologize but she told me not to trust any Akima certificate only ones that said Newegg and were from VERISIGN!!!!
Hope this helps you all
I've merged the two threads together. Knock it off with the name calling. - Anandtech Moderator DrPizza