I have downloaded and opened Firefox and tried the same web address and it works fine. iMessanger and iCloud are now fixed though. In exasperation I have even reinstalled OS X on my Macbook which did work for about thirty seconds, allowing me to login to paypal but on going back to the sight after restarting to double check, it has reverted back to the failed to open page status. So far, I have checked the date & time settings, rebooted everything, checked all the certificates on Keychain deleting any that had expired and I have changed the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 - this had the effect of causing iMessenger to cease to work and also prevented me from accessing the iCloub website stating the same "Failed to open page" message. I tried opening Paypal from Safari directly and it returns the message "Safari cannot open the page "." because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server." The problem became apparent when I tried to make an eBay purchase and the redirect to Paypal failed. Both machines are less than 6 moths old, running the latest OS X and have all the updates installed. Two days ago safari stopped being able to access Paypal on both my Macbook Air and iMac. Study showing that, without training, people were unlikely to notice the green address-bar notification provided by EV certificates.I've seen a few threads on this problem but nothing I've tried seems to work. Last year, researchers at Microsoft and Stanford University published a
Upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera are expected to support the technology.īut EV certificates have their critics.
When IE 7 visits PayPal, the browser’s address bar turns green - a sign to users that the site is legitimate.
Apple representatives weren’t immediately available to comment on this story.Īn emerging technology, EV certificates are already supported in Internet Explorer 7, and they’ve been used on PayPal’s Web site for more than a year now. When it comes to fighting phishing, “Safari has got nothing in terms of security support, only SSL (Secure Sockets Layer encryption), that’s it,” he said. This is a secure Web browsing technology that turns the address bar green when the browser is visiting a legitimate Web site. Another problem is Safari’s lack of support for another anti-phishing technology, called Extended Validation (EV) certificates. Unlike its competitors, Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users when they are visiting suspicious Web sites, Barrett said.
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