Phishing and other methods of theft are getting more sophisticated all the time. While many companies are affected by this practice, it is really up to the major sites in the industry to do something to minimize the threat.

Thankfully, PayPal is on the case and may even stop working on browsers which do not support the latest in security methods. See Paypal to Block Unsafe Browsers (But Not Safari) from TMCnet's Zippy Grigonis for the gory details of security methods, browser versions and operating system types.