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From stolen military gear to pirated software, or a piece of Nutri-Grain that looks like ET to the entire country of New Zealand, e-commerce sites like eBay and Craigslist really do allow you to buy or sell just about anything online. Or at least try...

Sensis and its iconic Trading Post business has weighed in to the online auctions market with the launch of auctions on tradingpost.com.au, endeavouring to boost revenue and take market share from market leader eBay.

Online payment provider PayPal has patched a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability that a Finnish researcher disclosed late last week, the company said Monday.

Thirty-eight people in the US and Romania have been charged in two indictments alleging they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, US and Romanian authorities announced Monday.

Antivirus and antimalware developers have been in the spotlight for the last month or so and have been the focus of malware developers for much longer over the plan to run the Race to Zero contest at this year's DefCon in Las Vegas. Now, it might be the turn of companies that produce and promote 'This Site is Safe from Hackers'-style certification and coverage for their clients to share the spotlight.

Research house Gartner has forecast that there will be 33 million mobile payment users worldwide in 2008, with the Asia Pacific taking the lead.

Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans Data report released Monday.

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A technical dispute between BigPond and PayPal has been resolved after BigPond cable users had been unable to login to the payment site for over a week.

PayPal, eBay's electronic payment service, plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks.

PayPal, eBay's payment service and the frequent target of fraudsters, plans to block browsers that don't include anti-phishing features from accessing its site.