Friday, July 14, 2006

Phishing scam uses PayPal secure servers

An article in ComputerWorld Security on June 16th 2006, discusses a cross-site scripting flaw on the PayPal site that has opened up a phishing hole.

"A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal Web site allows a new phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page with a valid security certificate..."

If you have a PayPal account then you need to read this article so that you don't accidently get caught in the phishing hole.

read the full article here

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