PayPal, the electronic payment service owned by eBay Inc., has denied that it plans to tag Apple Inc."s Safari as "unsafe" and block it from accessing the site.
"We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple"s Safari, from our website," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail late Friday.
PayPal was reacting to reports of a research paper released the week before by Michael Barrett, the firm"s chief information security officer, that said the payment service would ban browsers that lacked a way to block known or suspected phishing sites, and didn"t support Extended Validation (EV) certificates.