{"id":485,"date":"2006-06-20T23:36:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=485"},"modified":"2006-06-20T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T16:37:01","slug":"paypal-fixes-phishing-hole-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/paypal-fixes-phishing-hole-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal fixes phishing hole &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/PayPal+fixes+phishing+hole\/2100-7349_3-6084974.html?tag=alert\">PayPal fixes phishing hole | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><br \/>\nPayPal has fixed a flaw in its Web site to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>By exploiting the flaw, attackers were able to redirect people from a PayPal Web page to an online trap located in South Korea, a representative for the service said. The page actually has a real PayPal URL, but hosts malicious code that presents a message warning members that their account had been compromised. It then redirects them to a &#8220;phishing&#8221; Web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal fixes phishing hole | CNET News.com For more info click on above link PayPal has fixed a flaw in its Web site to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said Friday. By exploiting the flaw, attackers were able to redirect people from a PayPal Web page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}