Tuesday, September 16, 2014

iPhone 6: PayPal attack Apple below the belt – Le Figaro

The eBay company has offered a full-page ad in the New York Times to denigrate the payment system of the iPhone 6.

PayPal does not hold his punches. Less than a week after the presentation of the iPhone 6 and its payment system Pay Apple, eBay subsidiary bought a full-page ad in the New York Times to get take to his new competitor. “We want our money is safer than our selfies” is written on the advertisement, identified by the Internet site PandoDaily.

Apple PayPal back to the case of naked pictures of stars, which were published on the web without their knowledge. Some were recovered on iCloud storage space in the “cloud” of Apple. The iPhone maker had defended himself by pointing out that its computer systems had not been compromised. “There was no hacking iCloud”, said Apple CEO Tim Cook in a television interview this weekend. Hackers have obtained the usernames and passwords of their victims, through the technique of phishing or phishing. Apple has, however, committed to better warn potential victims of this type of attack

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The PayPal advertising.

Despite Apple’s defense This episode is a boon for PayPal, which can insinuate doubt on the security of the payment system of the iPhone 6 Apple Pay, presented last Tuesday with the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, is a direct competitor of its payment services. The American owners of the new smartphone will pay within seconds 220.000 Big chain shops and on websites and in applications. This is the niche PayPal, which has grown rapidly in the Internet payment and looking to expand in the stores. Apple has also poached one of the engineering managers PayPal to complete his project.

Apple had prepared for this kind of attack. Much of the presentation of its payment system was devoted to security measures implemented. All purchases will be verified by the fingerprint sensor of the iPhone, Touch ID. Complete bank details will not be passed on to the merchant. Similarly, Apple stresses on its website that the information will remain on a secure area of ​​smartphones and will “never stored on [its] servers.”

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