Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
eBay owned online payments service PayPal has unearthed a phishing scam emanating from its very own site. The scam, which has now been shut down, sought to trick users into visiting a malicious website and entering their confidential information, including credit card details and social security numbers.
The PayPal flaw enabled cyber-crooks to actually host a modified page
on the PayPal site which directed users to a bad website hosted on a
server in Korea. The scam lulled users into a false sense of security
because they were visiting a real PayPal encrypted page before being
redirected to the criminal site in Korea.
Once they landed on the Korean site, users were then presented with a fake PayPal log-in page asking for their personal details.
The fact that scam was discovered on one of the world's biggest and
widely respected e-commerce sites has raised concerns that even trusted
and supposedly secure websites are vulnerable to criminal cyber attacks
which could compromise the security of their users.
It is not known how many users have been tricked before the scam was
discovered last Friday. What is also not known is whether PayPal is
liable for damages to its users arising from the flaw that allowed its
site to host criminal activity.
David Bass
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