The Stop Online Piracy Act in the US is getting ever more publicity with GoDaddy one of the high profile companies to suffer from supporting it as we wrote a couple of days ago.  In our previous article Martin summed up SOPA very effectively. If you are living in the United States, you should have [...]

Categories: Online Services

PayPal is a popular payment processing system that is used by millions to make purchases and transactions on the Internet. Much of PayPal’s appeal stems from the fact that its system supports user to user transactions. New PayPal accounts are limited automatically until they are verified. Limitations block certain site features and limits the amount [...]

Categories: The Web

Some websites or services let you sign up only if you enter a valid credit card. This can happen even if you have no intention of ever buying something from the service or website. Sometimes you may prefer not to enter your own credit card information on the Internet, and sometimes you do not have [...]

Categories: Amazon

We all know that you can practically buy anything on the Internet, from bulk email accounts over credit card information and even PayPal accounts. Brian Krebs in a post on the Krebs on Security blog sheds some light on the latter. He identified websites were PayPal account data, and sometimes linked email account information, were [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

PayPal users from the European Union are receiving emails these days with the subject “Additional information required by 29.9.2011″. What first looks like another phishing email is in fact a legit PayPal email. According to PayPal, users from the European Union need to confirm account information because of a new EU law. Users who fail [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

It seems that those friendly, harmless little hackers from LulzSec have turned their attention, at least momentarily, from computing giants to passing bystanders in the evolving battle that has been kicking up online in past months. Friday the hacking community Lulz Security (LulzSec) posted a file which it claimed contained the username and password information [...]

Categories: Advice, Security

When you make purchases on the Internet, you often have to pay by credit card. Sometimes there are other payment options available, PayPal or Google Checkout for instance. Without credit card though, you will end up with limited possibilities to shop online. Handing out your credit card on the other hand may be a standard [...]

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Once a week or so I receive an email from the payment processing service PayPal that notifies me that my PayPal account has been temporarily limited. When I received such a message for the first time, I went all panic for a moment thinking that PayPal – once again – would have screwed me over. [...]

Categories: Advice

Phishing is still one of the common threats on today’s Internet. Criminals try to get account information and other personal information from users by faking emails and websites of trusted services, websites and authorities. Phishing is very common in the financial sector and PayPal is by far the service with the largest amount of phishing [...]

Categories: Security, The Web