Paypal in SA with FNB and we get Uncapped ADSL at last!
FNB and MWeb have gone ahead and pioneered the way this week to open wide the online world for South Africans to surf and send money across the Internet safe and secure.
FNB customers can now send money and sell products online, using their local South African FNB bank account and Paypal. MWeb on the other hand started offering an overseas standard UNCAPPED ADSL service that started a price war amongst Internet Service Providers nationwide. Naturally, we’re still waiting for Telkom to play catch up.
So What Is Paypal? (Just incase you don’t know)
Paypal is the world’s largest payment gateway engine for eCommerce globally. It has a massive active customer base of 81 million around the world. Consumers can top up and purchase online and merchants can receive money via their Paypal account and then withdraw funds into their bank account associated with the Paypal account. Check out FNB for more information!
Did you know you can Raise and Request money through Paypal on Facebook? You just simply need to add the application on your Facebook profile.
Another great thing is that visitors coming out for the 2010 FIFA World Cup will have an opportunity to use the Paypal service with local businesses to pay for things here in South Africa.
Now… it’s about jolly time… UNCAPPED ADSL is here to stay! MWeb began a pricing war to FREE THE WEB starting at R219 a month. Well all I can say is Hallelujah!
Does the term “Hack the Planet!” mean anything to you?
For most of you that were (or are) running older versions of WordPress installations on your hosting platforms you are probably not aware that you are in fact open to being hacked! Towards the end of last month one of my hosting accounts with HostGator was hacked and several of my blog sites were down whilst I was away in Cape Town. Talk about ruining a perfectly good holiday.
I immediately contacted the HostGator support team and as per usual they were all over it. They got on the case straight away and started helping me to restore a backup of all my websites that had been hacked! I really want to recommend the guys at HostGator for their timeous response and fantastic efforts to get me up and running across the board by the time I got back to my holiday apartment that evening.
The second thing I thought to check up on was my Adsense account. Phew! Slight panic but all was ok. That would have crushed my soul on that vacation. There I was spending my money with the thought that suddenly it was spent before I could possibly spend it myself.
Now as I mentioned earlier this happened because I was running on an older version of WordPress. After getting back home to Durban, I immediately started looking for causes and resolutions to the problem which I had while away and came across a number of articles online that highlighted the vulnerability to be in older versions of WordPress that are installed by users all over the world. (Isn’t it nice to know that you’re not the only one that gets hit hard). I fired up my HostGator CPanel and upgraded each and every installation of WordPress for each of my blog websites, making sure I wasn’t open to being hacked the same way again.
So make sure you all go and check that you update all your installations of WordPress right away to avoid the same issue I had while being on vacation down in Cape Town i.e. don’t let the Saudi Arabia Hacker ruin your day!
Here is a screenshot of the page:
DarrynRex.com Hacked!
