PayPal denies teenager reward for finding website bug
A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.
Jeremy Kirk | 28 May | Read more
A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.
Jeremy Kirk | 28 May | Read more
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer.
Lucian Constantin | 22 May | Read more
PayPal CISO Michael Barrett took the keynote stage at Interop to announce the impending death of passwords and their replacement with more robust authentication protocols based on an open standard. Apple may lead the way with its next iPhone.
Thor Olavsrud | 09 May | Read more
Cloud content sharing firm Box has hired three industry veterans to help bolster its operations.
Antony Savvas | 20 Apr | Read more
E-commerce merchants using shopping cart software CS-Cart version 3.0.4 and earlier are vulnerable to a flaw that allows fraudsters to buy goods without paying for them.
FIDO Alliance, DARPA vow to create better authentication, but new systems will have to attract users and providers, say security pros
Taylor Armerding | 14 Feb | Read more
Nok Nok Labs officially opened its doors today to introduce client/server-based technology proposed as an innovative foundation for flexible, strong multi-factor security that can be used in e-commerce, Web services or the enterprise.
Ellen Messmer | 12 Feb | Read more
A new industry group called the Fast IDentity Online Alliance, or FIDO Alliance for short, makes its debut Tuesday to promote adoption in e-commerce and websites an innovative authentication protocol that's intended to bring a higher level of security for online users.
Ellen Messmer | 12 Feb | Read more
A year after Google, Microsoft and other email heavyweights launched the DMARC program to filter out spoofed email that attackers use for phishing, they say an estimated 60% of the world's email boxes are now safe.
Ellen Messmer | 06 Feb | Read more
A British teen found guilty of attacking PayPal and other large companies as part of an Anonymous group cyber-campaign would have been sent to jail were it not for his age and troubled personality, a judge has said.
John E Dunn | 02 Feb | Read more
A student at Northampton University and a man from south London have been jailed for taking part in an unsophisticated but effective 2010 DDoS rampage that reportedly cost PayPal £3.5 million ($5.6 million).
John E Dunn | 26 Jan | Read more
Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial and music industry organizations in 2010 by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Jan | Read more
'Tis the season to be careful. That should be no surprise. Given that the online holiday shopping season is peaking, cybercriminals would be expected to ramp up their efforts as well.
Taylor Armerding | 07 Dec | Read more
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010.
Lucian Constantin | 06 Dec | Read more
Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on Yahoo's Developer Network website, according to an independent security researcher.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Dec | Read more