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Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-where-you-click dept.

eldavojohn writes "Over concerns for lack of an anti-phishing mechanism for Safari, Paypal is telling its Mac users to use another browser. An author from Ars Technica reveals that he has been using Camino and has fallen victim to a Paypal related phishing scam via e-mail so this story must hit home for him. 'Currently the Apple browser does not alert users to sites that could be phishing for your info, and it lacks support for Extended Validation. PayPal is, of course, a popular site among phishers in their neverending search for personal information, user IDs, and passwords. While it's not entirely fair singling out Safari (other Mac browsers like Camino also lack this support), it is perhaps at least a helpful reminder of the threat.'"

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  1. How good Ars Technica writers at tech and reviews by Blahbooboo3 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ars technica just dropped in my book. The writer couldn't pay enough attention to avoid a phishing scam?? Wonder how much attention he gives to his reviews and news items...

  2. Re:Maybe Apple should... by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 1, Troll

    So why is closing a Mac window harder than threading a needle? And with the close button so small, why do standard dialogs generally lack an "OK" or "Close" button, with the expectation that we use those itty-bitty buttons way up in the corner?


    Are you some sort of cripple? It's a mouse. It's an extension of your hand. Just aim the cursor. Slow movements are more precise, fast movements are coarser.

    And I have no idea what you could possibly mean by dialogues lacking certain buttons. Give me an example.

  3. Re:here phishie phishie by CastrTroy · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you are the kind of person who would fall for this thing, then you shouldn't even have an internet banking login. If you can't handle it, don't use it.

    --

    Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
  4. Re:Maybe Apple should... by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are also quite a few other things that make it disconcertingly "un-mac-like."

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

    (mods- this is it.slashdot.org, you're only allowed to battle as holy apple warriors on apple.slashdot.org)

  5. Re:Maybe Apple should... by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why doesn't it have fast, easy keyboard shortcuts for most tasks?

    Uh, what ? Windows is one of the *best* out there for keyboard access. It's _leagues_ ahead of any version of MacOS ever released.