5 PayPal Security Tips To Follow When Making Purchases

5 PayPal Security Tips To Follow When Making Purchases

Introduction How do you protect yourself when you use PayPal? Most don’t give it a second thought, and just assume PayPal is handling all the security. However, there are many steps you can take to further ensure your safety when making purchases. In excess of...
What is PayPal Buyer Protection and How Does It Work?

What is PayPal Buyer Protection and How Does It Work?

Overview We live in an age of e-commerce. Therefore, more and more of us are turning to online retail for everything from consumer electronics to groceries and even cars. Last year, e-commerce was responsible for around $2.3 trillion in retail sales and that number is...

PayPal Security – TLS 1.2 HTTP 1.1 Update

PayPal Security Overview As of 06/26/2018, PayPal has officially begun updating their server security to only accepts traffic requests using a specific HTTP protocol, TLS 1.2 / HTTP 1.1.  Even though PayPal has been warning people about this for years now, and they...

PayPal Security WordPress User Guide

PayPal Security for WordPress is a simple tool that will scan all of your site content for HTML code that resembles PayPal Standard payment buttons.  A site score will be returned as well as details about potential vulnerabilities in the individual PayPal buttons...

How to Create a PayPal Button

PayPal provides a “Button Factory” within any PayPal business account that can be used to create basic payment buttons for PayPal.  The PayPal Button Factory supports the following types of payment buttons:   Shopping Cart (Add to Cart and View Cart)...

PayPal SSL Error – POODLE Vulnerability

What is POODLE?POODLE is an internet security vulnerability that impacts the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol, which was designed to ensure secure connections when browsing the Internet.  When exploited, this vulnerability enables a cyber criminal to gain...