Hi Everyone,
As we continue in the online services industry to improve our tools and technology designed to create a safer online experience, eBay has been working with industry partners such as Internet Explorer and Firefox3 to identify phishing and other potentially risky sites. Although we originally developed filtering technology for the Account Guard feature of the eBay Toolbar, that same technology is now available in the very popular Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Firefox3 browsers. (More …)
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
No Phishing Allowed
eBay, PayPal and Google have partnered together to ensure that Google’s Gmail (https://mail.google.com) service will automatically detect PayPal and eBay phishing e-mails and prevent them from reaching your Gmail inbox.“We’re very excited that Google has taken this step and is working with us to help protect your online safety,” said Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal, in his post to the PayPal blog. “From now on, if you have a Gmail e-mail address, you will see a dramatic reduction in the amount of e-mails which purport to come from PayPal and eBay, but which aren’t in fact from us.”
