Pages Tagged “PayPal”
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- PayPal Asks: What Makes a Safe Browser?
Last month, eWeek reported that PayPal intends to block unsafe browsersfrom accessing their site. They’ve focused on phishing detection and support for Extended Validation SSL Certificates. So what are these features, and why does PayPal think they’re critical? And just which browsers are they likely to block? Phishing protection has an obvious appeal for a […]
- Alphabet Soup: XP SP and EV SSL XSS!
Sorry for the lack of updates this past week. I was just way too busy prepping for our move this weekend. A couple of interesting news bits I noticed when I got into work this morning: It looks like I’ve been lucky with installing Windows XP Service Pack 3. I’ve had no problems with the one machine […]
- Flagging (Non)-Spoofed Mail
Following up on the PayPal anti-phishing discussion of a few weeks ago, I see that PayPal is promoting a service called Iconix. You install the program on your system, and it looks at your inbox for messages that claim to be from one of its customers. It tries to verify them “using industry-standard authentication technologies […]
- Blocking IE6: You, Me and…PayPal?
On Thursday I stumbled across a campaign to Trash All IE Hacks. The idea is that people only stay on the ancient, buggy, feature-lacking, PITA web browser, Internet Explorer 6, because we web developers coddle them. We make the extra effort to work around those bugs, so they can actually use the sites without upgrading. Well, […]
- One Degree
Anyone whose email address is posted on a web site probably doesn’t bother to identify who sent them viruses anymore. With faked return addresses and the high probability that your only connection to the sender is the fact that they visited your web page sometime in the last month, there really isn’t much point. Every […]