Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains.
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Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency dealt blow by PayPal’s departure
PayPal abruptly announced that it was leaving the Libra Association.
EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings
The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is big news but will it be secure?
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.
Is your e-commerce site being used to test stolen card data?
If you’re running Magento you should be on the look out for hackers testing stolen card data – it could get your PayPal account suspended.
Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
The bot scraped Venmo’s public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the “buyers.”
Venmo users: time to hide your drug deals and excessive pizza consumption
To its fans, Venmo is a hassle-free P2P app that lets anyone living in the US send money to friends, split a restaurant bill, pay for a ride on Uber, or buy a hotel room. To the security conscious, it’s a privacy nightmare.
FCC plans weekly name and shame list of robocallers
With over 215,000 complaints last year, robocalling and telemarketing has become a massive issue for US federal regulators who now appear more determined than ever to quash the problem.
Here’s a phish you might not spot – 60 Second Security
Our latest weekly security video – and it only takes a minute. Why not give it a try?
PayPal patches potential payment-stealing vulnerability
An XSS hole could apparently have allowed a crook to pop up a realistic PayPal “pay page” and steal the victim’s card data. Paul Ducklin takes a look…