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Tech giants team up to combat phishing with new email specification

Major email providers such as Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ), Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) and Yahoo! as well as well-known companies like Facebook and PayPal, are pushing for the widespread adoption of a new

Is WikiLeaks DDoS a cyberwar? Not by a long stretch

Angered at various companies who declined to help keep WikiLeaks online, a loosely associated group who calls themselves "Anonymous" have banded together to exact vengeance against companies such as

Akamai: We can defend against DDoS attacks from Anon

In the wake of widely-reported Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks on sites such as PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, content delivery network (CDN) provider Akamai said that it has the capability to

WikiLeaks supporters launch cyber attacks on alleged opponents

PayPal, Visa, MasterCard and others have come under DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks by a group of online activist called Anonymous over the last week for withdrawing their services to

WikiLeaks hactivists seek revenge against MasterCard, others

The latest WikiLeaks hullaballoo intensified this week as Mastercard and other groups' websites were hit with distributed denial of service attacks by hackers targeting companies that withdrew

PayPal outage the result of network hardware failure

Back-to-back outages were experienced by PayPal last Friday, resulting in unhappy merchants and red faces at the online payment solution company. It has now emerged that the outage was the result of

PayPal's attempt to quietly increase rates triggers uproar

An attempt by PayPal to quietly raise its prices via policy changes that nobody reads is backfiring, as irate users become aware of it. The change, which was enacted in June, means that a PayPal to

Paypal unveils developer platform

PayPal yesterday unveiled its upcoming Adaptive Payment Platform at a press event. The new platform will introduce several new programming interfaces, which developers can work off of, to build a

PayPal opens up to developers

PayPal announced a new version of its Developer Central portal at the eBay Developers Conference in Chicago earlier this week. Understandably, PayPal wants to lower the barrier to integrating

Phishers get nabbed

Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two federal indictments, alleging they used a complicated Internet phishing scheme to steal thousands of credit and debit card