PayPal Problems Persist for Fifth Day
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Despite furious repair efforts, intermittent service outages at the online payment service PayPal continued Tuesday for the fifth consecutive day, affecting payments, log-ins and account creations.
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EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren&#39;t as popular as they used to be.According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors&#160;spam and phishing&#160;e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending to be from eBay or its payment subsidiary PayPal has dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September.&quot;That&#39;s an impressive turnaround by anyone&#39;s standards,&quot; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a prepared statement.Cluley attributes this drop in part to&#160;online initiatives&#160;by eBay and PayPal to educate their customers about phishing scams, and to PayPal&#39;s launch earlier this year of an&#160;authentication keyfob&#160;that creates a dynamic password for customers concerned with fraud.Sophos says the amount of phishing attacks circulating have stayed relatively consistent over the past year, but now phishers are using different tactics to try and fool recipients. Phishers are beginning to diversify by spoofing small credit unions, other online retailers, and overseas companies, he says.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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We&#8217;re showing ethernet going up and down on our server tonight. We&#8217;ve put in a ticket but it may not be resolved until tomorrow (Friday) morning. If the site is slow or unresponsive, please sit tight with us. Thanks! -Scott Share This
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Repairs were underway Monday at PayPal as the widely used online payment service struggled to get customers back on track after several days of "intermittent" outages...
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Still no accounts, now a profit warning too...
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Â· Systems failure on busiest day of the tax yearÂ· Self-assessment deadline extended by one day
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Jonathan aka &#8220;TrustNo1&#8243;, an ABestWeb Forum Regular tipped me about 6 hours ago off about Google Checkout and issues that emerged for several Merchants with Affiliate Programs. Actually the other way around, issues for the Affiliates that are affiliated with a CJ Merchant that uses Google Checkout. Not all of them though. Todd Martini opened [...]
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Plus: More Office holes, and a major Adobe problem that affects all browsers.
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EBay&#39;s online payments division, PayPal, will pay $169 million for an Israeli security company specializing in detecting online fraud, the companies said Monday. The deal should close within 30 days.Fraud Sciences, a private company, has developed technology designed to differentiate between real and fraudulent transactions. That technology will be folded into&#160;PayPal&#39;s antifraud systems, which will be &quot;significantly&quot; improved this year, eBay said.Fraud Sciences&#39; Chief Operating Officer, Yossi Barak, and founders Shvat Shaked and Saar Wilf will move to PayPal&#39;s technology and fraud management teams.PayPal lets two users exchange money online via e-mail addresses. The ease at which people can transfer money has also made it one of the most highly targeted brands for phishing scams, where fraudulent Web sites mimicking real sites are set up in order to steal people&#39;s log-in details.PayPal has taken other steps to shore up its defenses. Early last year, it began offering a keychain with a one-time numeric passcode that users enter in addition to their log-in and password. The passcode expires after 30-seconds, which greatly reduces a hacker&#39;s window of opportunity to get access to someone&#39;s account.PayPal has also pushed for free e-mail providers to&#160;block e-mail sent without digital signatures. That would potentially mean fewer scam e-mails would land in people&#39;s inboxes, reducing the chance of fraud, although providers have yet to make a unified commitment.&#160;
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Awarapan: Preserved your ticket and await a refund.
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Problems implementing a site redesign temporarily crippled some operations of Paypal the popular payment processing service. The performance problems, which began after a site update Thursday night, escalated
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PayPal, the online payment system owned by eBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , on Wednesday said it has fixed most of the problems that for five days left some users unable
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As website wobbles too The MasterCard website struggled to cope with Christmas shopping demand that left it unreachable for nearly five hours in the run-up to Christmas. More seriously MasterCard's Maestro system also experienced glitches in the immediate run-up to Xmas. The extent of the problem with the debit card system remains unclear.â¦
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A recent monthly update to its Web site caused no end of trouble for online transaction company PayPal. But after an outage that plagued the site, PayPal appears to be back online.
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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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PayPal said functions of the service that enable buyer and seller to exchange shipping information and to process payments immediately upon closing a sale were also affected by the outage.