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PayPal excludes Safari from “Safer Browsers”

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 1, 2008 at 01:00 PM

SafariMillions of people are victims to e-mail fraud and fake websites known as “phishing”. PayPal users are vulnerable to phishing all the time. For those who don’t know what PayPal phishing is, it’s basically a replica of PayPal’s login screen, and when you enter your details, instead of logging you in, your details are sent to the hacker who created the phishing site. Thankfully, PayPal has created a guide to “Safer Browsers”. But you won’t find Safari mentioned on the list of safe browsers.

Safari isn’t one of the safest browsers as many of you will know. Firefox is probably the safest alternative available on all platforms. In fact Safari lacks more security features than, dare I say it, Internet Explorer 7. Apple should keep updating Safari with new security fixes and features if they want their browser to succeed on both Windows and Mac. Safari has seen some great improvements, partially from WebKit updates. I want to continue seeing Safari get updates, so that it can compete with the leading browsers like Firefox. I’m a fan of Firefox’s compatibility, but I prefer Safari’s performance on the Mac.

Via [TUAW]

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