PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account for Distributing Hacking Tools

October 7th, 2009 admin

A security researcher who disclosed a serious vulnerability in online certificates has been blocked from accessing his PayPal account after someone released a counterfeit PayPal certificate he created for a professional training session. Moxie Marlinspike, who gave a talk at the Black Hat security conference in July about vulnerabilities in the ways that certificate authorities issue website certificates, told The Register that PayPal suspended his account, which contains $500 in value, a day after someone posted his certificate online . “This is not something I had anything to do with, and they responded by suspending my account,” he told the publication. &#…


Originally posted on Wired

 
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