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diff --git a/financial-news/2014-09-10.inc b/financial-news/2014-09-10.inc deleted file mode 100644 index 2b886bc9..00000000 --- a/financial-news/2014-09-10.inc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ - <h3>10-9-2014: PayPal accounts hacked with a click</h3> - <p>Yasser Ali reports a now patched vulnerability in PayPal that would - have allowed him to reset other user's passwords and take over their - accounts. This is unlikely to be the last vulnerability found in - account-based payment systems.<br> - In Taler, customers do not have accounts with usernames, passwords - or associated e-mail addresses. Instead, Taler uses reserves which - are represented by a private key on the owner's computer. Users - create a reserve by depositing currency at a Taler exchange, and can then - withdraw digital coins from that reserve using the respective private - key. There is no limit on the number of reserves a user can have, and - even hacking the Taler exchange would not provide an adversary with access to - user's reserves (as the Taler exchange does not have the private keys). - Stealing in Taler requires breaking into each customer's computer to - extract the reserve keys or the coins from the digital wallet. - </p> - <p><a class="btn btn-info" href="http://yasserali.com/hacking-paypal-accounts-with-one-click/" role="button">Source</a></p> |