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PayPal Blocking Old, Insecure Browsers

by Tim Stevens on April 19, 2008 at 03:48 PM

PayPal Blocking Ancient BrowsersStill rolling online using Internet Explorer 3.0, released almost 12 years ago? If so, you're doing the digital equivalent of walking around with your fly down, and it's well and truly time to upgrade. Don't take our word for it; take PayPal's. The online banking and payment service site is going to actively start blocking older, insecure browsers, including the once mighty IE 4.0, released way back in 1997, but still disturbingly popular.

PayPal is a very popular target for phishers, who send phony e-mails directing users to phony PayPal-lookalike sites, stealing their login info and, later, stealing their money. Newer browsers are able to highlight the address bar at the top in green when visiting a legitimate site and highlight it in red when the destination is a bit more shady, giving users a visual clue that they're about to get ripped off.

Here's hoping this move is enough incentive to ditch those aging, archaic browsers and get with the times. Might we suggest Firefox, or a nice 2006 vintage IE7? [Source: BBC]

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, PayPal, Phishing, security

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