I recently dusted off my E*TRADE account and began trading again, my portfolio needed some updating for sure. About a year or so ago I got out of many tech stocks that I was into pretty heavy and did some serious diversification. What I found recently was that my earnings really weren’t any better than […]
Converting to Add to Cart Button (PayPal)
While talking with a pro bono client today they were wondering how hard it would be to add an “add to cart” button instead of a single item “buy now” button on their site. At the time their website was developed (approximately 7 years ago) they only offered one item for sale. Of course 7 […]
Integrate PayPal Recurring Subscriptions / Payments
From time to time I do some pro bono consulting for non-profit organizations and lately I had one such client that I had worked for several years ago reach out to me for advise on setting up a subscription based service solution using PayPal as the payment gateway. Being forced to reacquaint myself with the […]
PayPal XSS Vulnerability (EV SSL)
PayPal fell victim to a cross-site scripting vulnerability this past week. Basically it would allow hackers to carry out a few tasks such as stealing credentials from users as well as displaying their own content. PayPal, in my opinion, has always done a good job in terms of staying up on security risks over the […]