This week I found a plethora of free apps. And thankfully, they aren’t all the same type. There’s a social picture taking app, a few notable app updates, a utility, a travel guide, a few demos, a few limited time freebies, and more. Kiss boredom goodbye, because I’m sure you’ll be finding something past the break that will make it on to your home screen.

Watching your money is more important now then it ever has been before. If you need some help to keep track of your cash, these apps can help you out. We’ve got suggestions for an app to remind you to pay your bills, one to help you budget your personal finances, and one to make your payments online, none of which will interfere much with your monthly expenditures.

For the first time in Apple’s history, an Apple program is the target of a Phishing scam. Recently, thousands of iTunes users have received fraudulent emails, asking them for personal information including credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, mother’s maiden name, and more. Andrew Lochart of Proofpoint, inc. expressed his surprise with the attempt. “We’ve gotten used to seeing the usual companies and brands attacked,” he said, “like PayPal, eBay and Citibank. But we’ve never seen Apple as the target”. For Apple, the Phishing attempt should in a way come as a complement, as Phishers would never bother with a small-time site. Apple’s recent success in both the music industry and computer industry can be blamed as the reason for the attack.

PayPal was considering blocking Safari users from accessing their website due to security risks that the browser has a few days ago. Because Safari doesn’t have any built-in support for anti-phishing, it was considered very unsafe by PayPal. I can bring Safari and PayPal users good news: Safari has been spared from PayPal’s list of more »

Citing an increase in attempted Phishing attempts on PayPal’s user database, PayPal says there is a very good chance that older versions of Internet Explorer (IE 4 and later), along with the all versions of Safari, may be blocked from the site. Safari and older versions of IE lack phishing blocks, and in an arena more »

Millions of people are victims to e-mail fraud and fake websites known as “phishing”. PayPal users are vulnerable to phishing all the time. For those who don’t know what PayPal phishing is, it’s basically a replica of PayPal’s login screen, and when you enter your details, instead of logging you in, your details are sent more »