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Citing an increase in attempted Phishing attempts on PayPal’s user database, PayPal says there is a very good chance that older versions of Internet Explorer (IE 4 and later), along with the all versions of Safari, may be blocked from the site.  Safari and older versions of IE lack phishing blocks, and in an arena in which large amounts of money are transferred daily, those are imperative.  The company says that PayPal users will be warned of their use of an old browser, and eventually blocked, at a time not announced.  “At PayPal, we are in the process of reimplementing controls which will first warn our customers when logging in to PayPal of those browsers that we consider unsafe,” says a PayPal employee. “Later, we plan on blocking customers from accessing the site from the most unsafe—usually the oldest—browsers.”  Although other popular browsers such as Firefox and Opera also lack Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layers (EV SSL, a simple anti-phisher), they have both announced plans to implement such technologies.  As of now, Apple has no such plans made public. 

Via [MacWorld]