Artificial Intelligence Future

Indonesia bans various digital platforms, including PayPal Indonesia has banned PayPal and other digital platforms for not following the rules of their country. Email website Yahoo, payment company PayPal, and other gaming websites have been banned by Indonesia.

'Supply Chain Attack' on 35 Big Companies including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal An ethical hacker (researcher) has recently demonstrated a novel supply chain attack. Accordingly, the systems of more than 35 big technology companies like Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Sophie, Netflix, Tesla, Uber have been breached. Novell Supply Chain Attack exploits public and open-source developer tools. The system, developed by ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher Alex Birsan, injects malicious code into an open-source developer tool to exploit the dependencies of those organizations' internal applications. It could target developers' projects using public depositories such as GitHub. According to Birsan, the success rate of such attacks is high after the companies have been targeted. The vulnerabilities he has exploited so far, which he calls 'Dependency Confusion', have been found in more than 35 organizations. These were in Python, Ruby, and Java programming languages.

Cryptocurrency can now be spent through PayPal The online payment system PayPal has entered the cryptocurrency market. Announcing this, the company said that users with PayPal accounts can buy and sell Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Customers will be able to purchase goods using PayPal from these virtual currencies. With the company's decision, those who own cryptocurrencies will be able to purchase goods or services from 26 million vendors who can pay through PayPal. According to PayPal, the company is initially planning to open payments in the US market in a few weeks. In the early months of 2021, this feature will be available worldwide. Cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash, including Bitcoin, can be spent through PayPal.