Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet. It basically means that criminals are sending emails to users that make them believe they are coming from an email sender that they can trust. Most phishing emails pose as emails from financial organizations like PayPal or banks and ask [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 2nd, 2008
- Comments: 13
Paypal anti-laundering safety regulations
I have been an active Paypaler for a while now, and I was surprised when Paypal sent me a letter asking me to verify that indeed I am not laundering money. Do I need to send photos of my apartment so it is apparent I do not have a printing press at home?
Nope, I needed [...]
PayPal Now Offering Mobile Security Key
VeriSign send me a free PayPal Security Key after I mentioned that an unauthorized payment was done from my PayPal account. The security key acts as a new layer of defense. It has to be entered during login to complete the login.
The key is an electronic device that generates a six digit key every 30 [...]
Protect PayPal Accounts With VeriSign Identity Protection Devices
I had a rather unpleasant experience with PayPal lately where someone transferred all the money from my account. PayPal was not very forthcoming and I do not know until today how this was possible. One of the first things that I did after this experience was to order a PayPal Security Key. I was contacted [...]
Update on my PayPal Story
I noticed in the beginning of July that someone else transferred most of the money that had been in my PayPal account to an online hoster to buy six month access to an virtual server. That was quite shocking and you can read up on theUnauthorized Payment Done With My PayPal Account story. I got [...]
Gmail And Yahoo Mail Users Now Protected Against eBay And PayPal Phishing Mails
The award for the longest title ever could go to this one. But it’s good news actually. Both Email services are “supporting email authentication standards including DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to verify senders and help identify forged messages” for a few years now but could not eliminate all phishing emails because of companies [...]
Unauthorized Payment Done With My PayPal Account
I usually check my emails right after I wake up and received a PayPal email receipt this morning that told me that the amount of $480 was transferred from my account. I first thought that this was a phishing email and checked the links and headers but it turned out to be legit. I was [...]
