Update 1: Technical Problems Subside at PayPal
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Most members of the online payment service Paypal should be able to log on to the Web site after five days of intermittent service outages and furious repair efforts, the company said.
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The Internet is a lonelier place for users of PayPal and MSN Instant Messenger, thanks to a software glitch and a suspected virus.
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Online payment Web site PayPal.com was back in service late last night after a coding error disrupted service for four days.
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The update fixes flash card communications and a problem with colors and vertical lines, according to the company.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Online payment processor PayPal said it would fine customers as much as $500 if they violate the company's policies against using the service for gambling, pornography or selling prescription drugs without official certification...
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Amazon&#39;s data storage service was down for several hours on Friday morning, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.As of around 9 a.m. on the West Coast of the U.S., the issue had been resolved, according to an Amazon employee posting on a user group forum. &quot;This morning&#39;s issue has been resolved, and the system is continuing to recover,&quot; wrote Kathrin, the Amazon employee, on the forum.She said that the company plans to post technical information about what exactly happened, but that the priority is to make sure the system is stable.Companies use Amazon&#39;s Simple Storage Service, known as S3, to store and quickly retrieve large amounts of data, often to run Web sites and services.A press spokesman said that one of three geographic locations for the service was unreachable for about two hours, but that it was operating at 99 percent of normal performance before 7 a.m. on the West Coast. &quot;We&#39;ve been communicating with our customers all morning via our support forums and will be providing additional information as soon as we have it,&quot; said Drew Herdener in a statement.Many customers appeared not to have gotten that communication. They complained on the forum about a lack of information from Amazon about the outage and when it would be fixed. One suggested that Amazon could have at least posted a message on the front page of the Web services site so that customers would be aware that the problem wasn&#39;t on their end.Others wrote about the problems that the outage was causing their businesses. &quot;It&#39;s becoming very embarrassing for us here,&quot; one wrote. &quot;We desperately need an update ... it&#39;s a huge hit on our reputation.&quot;Many of the users said that the service was down for around three hours.Gustavo, a user in Brazil, said that his company hosts more than 30,000 images from a large television station in Brazil. &quot;Now we are having several problems because of this S3 issue,&quot; he wrote. &quot;My company chose to work with Amazon because of its reliability.&quot;Late last year, Amazon introduced a new service level agreement for S3 that guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime each month. If the service slips below that level, the company promised to provide service credits to certain users.
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Paypal has long held the inauspicious title of the Web's most frequently spoofed phishing target, but it says it is now seeing some success in stemming the tide with user education programs and pertnership with large ISPs, and Web mail services.
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PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) says it has recovered from the software glitches that disrupted the online payment service starting Friday, October 8th.
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Online finance service PayPal, used by mainly people on eBay, introduces a security token to tackle fraud.
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Blog: Here's a follow up to a blog of a few days ago outlining workaround until Google issues a patch.
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With a personal triumph today that can not only be helpful for himself but for lots of others - he's gotten PHP to successfully connect to the eBay API servers and get the correct responses.
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A coding error during routine upgrade maintenance at online payment Web site PayPal.com has created havoc for users, who have had only intermittent access to their accounts since Friday.
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InfoWorld - PayPal&#39;s Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the &quot;payments geek.&quot;
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Some users of PayPal are having trouble logging onto the site and are getting security warnings -- problems apparently tied to an SSL security certificate used by Omniture, which is gathering data for the online payment site.
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PayPal, the popular payment method on auction site eBay Inc., has fixed the technical problems that had plagued the systems for almost a week, leaving many users unable to access their accounts or conduct business.
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On the PHP Security Blog, there's two new posts concerning their Suhosin patch for PHP - one talking about a remote code execution vulnerability found in the uploadprogressmeter extension (which as already been corrected) and the other dealing with the "stealth mode" of the patch to find compatibility problems.   As mentioned, the issue with the uploadprogress extension has been fixed and as been introduced into the PECL repository. The other post just mentions what the patch is doing to try to keep compatibility problems from happening due to back extensions and/or modules being loaded in an application.   More details about the Suhosin patch can be found here.
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The Zend Developer Zone has a nwe post that announces the release of the first version of an API created to interface your PHP scripts with the Website Payments Pro API from Paypal - phpPaypalPro.   It is a framework developed in PHP5 that integrates easily with the Website Payments Pro API from Paypal. Currently it supports 4 major operations available from the Website Payments Pro SOAP 1.1 API. It has taken advantage of the built-in SOAP extension available natively in PHP5 to generate the requests and interprets the responses to and from the Website Payments Pro SOAP-based web service.   Current operations supported include: DoDirectPayment, SetExpressCheckout, GetExpressCheckoutDetails and DoExpressCheckoutPayment and you can get more information about other functionality from the project's documentation. Be sure to check out the sample script and the full SourceForge page for even more Paypal interface goodness.