If you're using Apple's Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud. Safari doesn't make PayPal's list of recommended browsers because it doesn't have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer.
"Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers," Barrett said in an interview. "Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera." Safari is the default browser on Apple's Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it is also available for the PC. Both Firefox and Opera run on the Mac.
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"Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers," Barrett said in an interview. "Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera." Safari is the default browser on Apple's Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it is also available for the PC. Both Firefox and Opera run on the Mac.
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Better yet: how will they respond?
Even Better yet: how soon will it take them to blame Microsoft?
The flip-side of this coin: I really feel sorry for Safari users, now that there is this gaping security hole in Safari.
Better yet: how will they respond?
Even Better yet: how soon will it take them to blame Microsoft?
The flip-side of this coin: I really feel sorry for Safari users, now that there is this gaping security hole in Safari.
Enough flame bait in there?
Better yet: how will they respond?
Even Better yet: how soon will it take them to blame Microsoft?
The flip-side of this coin: I really feel sorry for Safari users, now that there is this gaping security hole in Safari.
I would say it was a gaping hole in the security because phishing is easy to avoid without massive pop-up messages freezing the screen whenever the browser detects it =/
Assuming that sentence was supposed to be in the negative - no, phishing is not easy to detect, at least not for the masses.
Last edited by betasp on 28 Feb 2008 - 15:17
Have to go along with that, for the most part.
So you are calling all the normal non-tech users out there idiots? Maybe you're an idiot if you are computer savy and do that but average users out there don't know as much as we do about URL's DNS systems and all that fun stuff to tell when something is phishing or not... heck today alone I got a phishing e-mail from "paypal" saying my account was under review for supicious activity from an address that looked like paypal's almost completely... except one little thing... it was secure-paypal.com which a average user might think (and yes they will!
People that might get scammed maybe?
If ANYONE here uses paypal, and hasn't been to http://www.paypalsucks.com do yourself a favor and read some of the stuff that goes on with that company, I can speak from experience about them ripping me off.
It's one of those things you really don't care to believe, until you read the actual situations that people have been put through, then at least you go to yourself "wow maybe I should seriously re-consider using them"
Last edited by TRC on 28 Feb 2008 - 23:36
If a user thinks they are going to the real paypal site, they're probably going to ignore any warnings that it isn't ("Oh it's just a false alarm"
And I fail to see how lack of EV certificates support is going to open people up to phishing, it's not that noticeable (Firefox 3 turns the background of the favicon green and shows the name of the company, it's not noticeable).
so again, why do they not have an acceptable understanding of technology, I think that award goes to you.
lol. Care to explain? my understanding of technology is not that good either.
Learn something about software, then come back and post.
Let's see . . . sacrifice a core element of the Apple User Experience over one of several (if not many) online payment methods.
Not likely.
and exactly what shold you use instead of Paypal then ? since paypal is currently the only system of it's kind universally compatible on pretty much everything. still I don't use Paypal, much since I pay with my Visa.
Granted if you ue Safari, the consequences of being the victim ofphising with your Visa is far worse than if it was paypal.
Seriusly can you EVER accept that not eveything Apple is perfect, they do have flaws, and for the average joe, wich is who Apples is aiming fo with their products, Phising is a SERIUS problem, and thus sois the lack of anti phising features.
Hhhmmm... so hard to choose.
papal may have its problem, but i am glad they spoke up.
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