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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you run an old version of a browser you will more likely be subject of an attack, that’s a fact I think that we can all agree on. The latest browser versions are not as vulnerable as old versions, especially if you take into consideration that known vulnerabilities are much easier to exploit than [...]

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