Tuesday 29 December 2015

Journalist says PayPal’s ‘lazy’ security practices let hackers link him to terror group

PayPal has been accused of failing to adopt adequate security measures by a journalist who says his account was taken over twice in 20 minutes recently by hackers who attempted to siphon funds to a slain recruiter for the Islamic State terror group.

Virginia-based security journalist Brian Krebs claimed in a blog post on Monday that one of the world’s largest online payment companies is unnecessarily exposing its users to security and privacy threats, the likes of which he experienced first-hand last week when his account was repeatedly compromised by hackers on Christmas Eve. For the full article click here 



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