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Ubuntu One is not the most popular service from Canonical, but now it seems that access to its services has become a lot easier with the adoption of PayPal. Not too many people know what Ubuntu One is all about and most users think it's just some cloud storage service. The fact of the matter is that Ubuntu O... |
24 May 2012
10:16 GMT |
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“We need your help resolving an issue with your account!” reads the subject of the latest phishing email users should be aware of.
The spam emails try to convince recipients that their assistance is required in order to address an urgent issue that limits their accounts, Hoax Slayer reports.
“We n... |
15 May 2012
08:00 GMT |
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APWG released its Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 2H2011. Besides the interesting trends in the phishing sector, the paper also shows that PayPal is no longer the favorite of cybercriminals, being replaced with the Chinese e-commerce site Taobao.com.
While in the first half of 2011 PayPal was s... |
28 April 2012
05:06 GMT |
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P0isAnon, the alliance between TeaMp0isoN and members of the Anonymous community, launched a campaign against PayPal, the world renowned e-commerce service that allows payments and money transfers to be made online.
P0isAnon is best known for Operation Robin Hood, an op purposed to convince consumers to move their m... |
19 March 2012
05:03 GMT |
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The official website of PayPal, the popular online commerce business that facilitates payments via the Internet, was found to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability by Indian hackers Vansh and Vaibhuv. The Hacker News reports that the security hole exists because the site isn’t designed to validate... |
12 March 2012
08:20 GMT |
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A young couple, arrested last year by the North Yorkshire police, admitted to a £350,000 ($553,000 or 416,000 EUR) fraud scheme that involved the personal details of 8 million individuals and the credit card details of 400. According to the Daily Mail, 23-year-old Edward Pearson was the mastermind of this sch... |
21 February 2012
07:46 GMT |
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PayPal is hardly the most beloved company on the web, but there aren't any real alternatives to it and it gets the job done, most of the time. But the web doesn't reserve any good faith for the company and it certainly hasn't now that an allegedly antique violin got destroyed, seemingly at the instruct... |
5 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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It's official, Yahoo has announced that it has ended its search for a new CEO. It's been searching for one since September, when it ousted its former CEO Carol Bartz, even as the company has been involved in talks of a sale of the entire company or just its Asian assets.
Yahoo announced that, now former, P... |
4 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a confusing past few months. Ever since it got rid of its CEO in September, the company's future has been unclear, to say the least. On the one hand, it has been looking for a replacement. On the other, it was looking for buyers as well, either for the whole company or just for its valuable Asian a... |
4 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Stuart Metcalfe proudly announced a few hours ago, December 8th, on the Canonical blog that the popular PayPal payment method will be available in Ubuntu Software Center by Christmas."It’s been a long time in development, but we’re finally drawing close to releasing Paypal support in Ubuntu Pay, the payme... |
9 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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PayPal, one of the most popular names utilized by phishers in their malicious campaigns, is once again used to send unsuspecting internauts an email that alerts them of an account email address modification.
“You have added [EMAIL ADDRESS] as a new email address for your Paypal account,” reads the messag... |
25 November 2011
07:50 GMT |
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PayPal has been looking at ways it can expand to new areas, mobile seems like an obvious choice, but social networking is too. Which explains the Send Money PayPal app for Facebook.
The new app is rather interesting, as the name implies, it enables users to send money to their friends.
The social aspects of it, as ... |
18 November 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Internet users can expect their inboxes to be spammed with an email that alerts them on a payment of around $100 (70 GBP or 82 EUR) that has been made from their PayPal account to a Skype TopUp account. “You sent a payment of 69.99 GBP to Skype (TopUp@*******.com) Thanks for using PayPal. To see all the transa... |
18 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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A new flavor of the PayPal app for devices running under Google's Android operating system is now available for download via the Android Market, bringing along a wide range of enhancements and new features.
The new PayPal application release landed in the application store as version 3.0 and was made availabl... |
8 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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PayPal might soon become one of the payment options that Android users can take advantage of when purchasing applications and games from the Android Market.
Of course, rumors on the availability for this payment method for the application storefront have been floating around since a long time ago, but things are ge... |
3 November 2011
05:28 GMT |
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eBay has posted strong financial results for the third quarter of 2011, helped, once again, by PayPal. The company posted a 32 percent revenue growth, on a year-over-year basis, helping it achieve a record quarter.
"Revenue for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011, increased 32% to $3.0 billion [2.17€ b... |
20 October 2011
05:52 GMT |
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eBay is further focusing on merchants and ecommerce and moving further away from its auctions site beginnings. As part of a broader X.commerce initiative, eBay is debuting PayPal Access, a very interesting new tool for providing authorization and authentication to commerce sites in particular.
PayPal Access, esse... |
13 October 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Vimeo has announced that it is now accepting PayPal as a payments provider, for any purchases made on the site, including for the premium accounts. This may not seem like much of a big deal, but it's been the number one requested feature for the past three years.
While Vimeo won't go into the details, it... |
6 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Blizzard has announced that its upcoming Diablo III role playing game will support popular online payment service PayPal for the new Auction House feature announced last month, while its current Battle.net online service will soon allow players to make purchases with just a valid PayPal account.Blizzard caused a lot ... |
15 September 2011
17:11 GMT |
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John Christman’s mortgage is due this week, but he is stuck with an empty bank account because either Apple or PayPal charged him 122 times for his single purchase of OS X Lion.
John bough Lion from the Mac App Store on July 23, and paid $31.79 after sales tax, according to a MacRumors post.
For one reaso... |
28 July 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Anonymous and its LulzSec appendage have declared war on PayPal and urge people to close their accounts with the online payment service as soon as possible.In a joint communiqué posted online, the hacktivists condemn the recent arrest of its supporters and reiterate their opinion that LOIC-powered DDoS attacks... |
27 July 2011
07:20 GMT |
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eBay has posted great financial results for the second quarter of the year. Revenue is up 25 percent and is above analysts' expectations. PayPal continued to post great results, its first billion dollar quarter, but eBay's traditional Marketplaces unit also saw a big increase in revenue.
The company brou... |
21 July 2011
07:51 GMT |
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FBI arrested sixteen individuals believed to have participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and hacking attacks instrumented by Anonymous and LulzSec.According to the Department of Justice, fourteen suspects were involved in a DDoS attack against PayPal's website launched after the company blocked don... |
20 July 2011
05:26 GMT |
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PayPal may be dominating online payments, but it's getting some competition on the fresh, new mobile front. Anyone from Square to Google to Visa is trying to get a piece of the pie and PayPal is no exception. The company has announced a new NFC-based payments app for users to exchange money, from phone to phone.... |
14 July 2011
11:18 GMT |
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eBay consolidated PayPal's mobile payments reach by acquiring Zong, a world-wide mobile payments platform. This transaction will fit perfectly in PayPal's new strategy, focused on digital goods and micro-transactions.Zong allows service payments through mobile carrier billing. The company currently serving ... |
7 July 2011
12:07 GMT |
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PayPal, the popular e-commerce platform has recently revealed just how popular it actually is: it has more than 100 million active accounts and the number keeps on growing so that by 2015, people might not even need to carry a wallet.This payment method is has gradually been integrated with numerous types of servic... |
30 June 2011
13:16 GMT |
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A group of hackers has leaked tens of MySpace and PayPal login credentials which were allegedly captured by sniffing packets on open wireless networks.Called D3V29, the group has openly declared its affiliation with Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec), the hacking campaign originally started by LulzSec and carried forw... |
28 June 2011
08:53 GMT |
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There's been a surge in online payment services lately, especially, almost exclusively, on the mobile front. But this doesn't mean that the old guard is going anywhere any time soon, the old guard in this case being PayPal which has just reached the 100 million active users milestone.PayPal has confirmed th... |
28 June 2011
04:04 GMT |
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Following posts on both official blogs, eBay announced an agreement to acquire Magento Inc., the company behind the leading open-source e-commerce platform by the same name.eBay currently holds 49% of Magento Inc., following a previous $22.5 million investment.At the end of Q3, when the transaction is expected to clo... |
7 June 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Just hours after Google unveiled its Wallet mobile payments system, PayPal, the biggest payments system online, has announced that it's suing Google, more specifically, two Google employees that used to work for PayPal. The claims are misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract and a few others."Spendi... |
27 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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The traditional Xbox Live Spring dashboard update starts rolling out on May 19 and brings a variety of features, including support for the New Xbox 360 Game Disc as well as the ability to use the PayPal service to purchase things on Xbox Live.
Microsoft is getting ready to debut the Spring dashboard update for the... |
10 May 2011
03:05 GMT |
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PayPal has been having plenty of trouble in India as the national Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put several limitations on what users can do with the payment system in the country, related to export and money withdrawal issues.PayPal has complied with the demands and regulations and is now asking Indian users for e... |
9 May 2011
09:10 GMT |
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PayPal is eBay's shining star, but, even as it posts record revenue, the payments company is facing tough competition, especially on the mobile front. It's own efforts in the emerging market haven't been spectacular so far, but PayPal is looking to change that, partially through its latest acquisition ... |
29 April 2011
08:20 GMT |
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eBay has posted some very positive financial results for the first quarter of 2011, beating analyst expectations, largely due to the continued success of its PayPal unit. Revenue saw a 16 percent increase year over year and income grew by 20 percent."In the first quarter, PayPal continued to drive strong growth globa... |
28 April 2011
06:10 GMT |
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PayPal has now responded to the accusations that it had frozen the account of a nonprofit, Courage To Resist, raising money for US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged source of many of WikiLeaks' recent leaks. PayPal had previously blocked the account of WikiLeaks.PayPal has re-instituted the account, but sai... |
25 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that a new wave of PayPal phishing emails are hitting people's inboxes in an attempt to trick them into exposing their login credentials.The emails bear a subject of "Please confirm your identity" and have forged headers to appear as originating from PayPal.However, it appea... |
24 February 2011
01:14 GMT |
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A 22-year old UK cyber thief who stole money from people's PayPal accounts to buy luxury items and gold bullion was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison this week.Richard Kirk, 22, of Sherwood, Nottingham, was accused of fraud and theft after breaking into 303 PayPal accounts and stealing a total of &po... |
23 February 2011
03:50 GMT |
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PayPal has now rolled out its micropayments solution for all developers and websites. PayPal for digital goods is designed for small transactions, mainly for virtual goods or services. It is meant to tackle the growing market for virtual goods where PayPal's existing fees system and interface didn't fit in ... |
11 February 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Security researchers from Avira have spotted an email PayPal phishing attack currently hitting people's inboxes which has both an English and a French version."We don’t see a phishing attack executed simultaneously in two languages every day," says Sorin Mustaca, data security expert at Avira.Mr. Mustaca p... |
1 February 2011
13:48 GMT |
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Blizzard, the company in charge of the MMO World of Warcraft, has reached out to PayPal, the company which specializes in facilitating payment across the digital space, asking it to close down the accounts that are associated to the practice of gold selling in the blockbuster video game.
World of Warcraft is the b... |
1 February 2011
06:19 GMT |
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After almost a year of problems, PayPal has come to an agreement with the India authorities that will enable it to continue to operate in the country, albeit in a very restricted way. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed some limitations to what users can do with their PayPal accounts in India.
The move wa... |
29 January 2011
06:44 GMT |
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PayPal and Facebook were the most spoofed websites in phishing attacks during 2010 according to statistics from OpenDNS' PhishTank system.In its annual report for 2010 [pdf], OpenDNS, a provider of DNS, Web content filtering and anti-phishing services, revealed that PayPal remains the most attractive target for ... |
26 January 2011
05:46 GMT |
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eBay posted solid financial results for the fourth quarter of 2010, with big gains in both revenue and net income. Q4 revenue was $2.5 billion with a net income of $559.2 million. Earnings per share were above market expectations. "We delivered a strong fourth quarter and a solid year, driven by our customer focus, c... |
20 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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PayPal is rapidly becoming the most popular method of payment for online transactions, even though it was originally launched to serve only eBay acquisitions. Currently, about 76 percent of American users have such an account.According to a survey conducted by Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG), the number of consumers... |
30 December 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Court fillings reveal that FBI is currently investigating the distributed denial of service attacks launched against PayPal by the Anonymous group of hacktivists.The Smoking Gun reports that an FBI affidavit sworn in support of a search warrant at a Dallas hosting firm, reveals details of the federal probe.At the beg... |
30 December 2010
04:57 GMT |
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eBay has announced that it has signed a partnership with the Chongqing, China municipal government in which its subsidiary PayPal will work with the local authorities to provide support and services to small businesses doing international transactions. The joint venture will provide services like foreign exchange set... |
29 December 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Dutch authorities have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the recent Anonymous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against MasterCard and PayPal.The Dutch Attorney General announced [Google translation] that Anonymous’ Operation Payback attacks were traced back to the Netherlands... |
9 December 2010
13:28 GMT |
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A new wave of PayPal phishing emails carrying a fake form allegedly intended for account information update purposes, has been hitting people’s inboxes since yesterday.The rogue emails purport to come from “PayPal.com” and bear a subject of “Your account has been temporarily limited !”Th... |
9 December 2010
02:58 GMT |
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PayPal has closed the account used by WikiLeaks to receive donations, prompting the Anonymous group of hacktivists to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against its blog.WikiLeaks doesn’t seem to be able to get a break since it started releasing the U.S. Department of State diplomatic cables at... |
4 December 2010
07:57 GMT |
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German antivirus vendor Avira has intercepted a new phishing campaign, which generates fake emails posing as security notifications from PayPal.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Notification Of Limited Account Access RXI034" (the final ID can differ) and purport to originate from a support@pp.net address.The contai... |
16 November 2010
04:56 GMT |
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