A new report from Duo Security revealed that PayPal’s two-factor authentication technology can be bypassed, and the online-payment company—which does not disagree with the findings—is disabling ...

PayPal gives users the option of using a form of two-factor authentication that comes in a couple of forms, each of which generates a one-time password for use during login. The system can be used on ...

Duo Security has unveiled a vulnerability in PayPal's two-factor authentication system that allows attackers to bypass the security system and make unauthorised payments from a user's account.

One of PayPal’s primary mechanisms to protect accounts from being hacked may have been fundamentally flawed for years. That’s the concern raised by security researchers who uncovered a method of ...

Oftentimes, looking at a given security vulnerability or mistake by a vendor, it’s easy to wonder how on earth the bug got through in the first place or the company didn’t catch the problem earlier.

My PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve. The perpetrator tried to further stir up trouble by sending my PayPal funds to a hacker gang tied to the jihadist militant group ISIS. Although the ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is supposed to make online accounts more secure. That is, as long as it works. According to Duo Security, PayPal’s two-factor authentication is vulnerable to bypass, ...

PayPal was one of the first large online services providers to offer two-factor authentication to its users, but until recently the company’s implementation had a loophole that could have allowed ...

PayPal unit said Friday that consumers with Samsung Galaxy S5 phones can now use a fingerprint authentication version of its mobile app. PayPal said Galaxy S5 owners will be able to use their ...

It is widely recommended that you use Two-Factor authentication on as many accounts as possible because it is supposed to provide a secondary layer of security that makes it almost impossible to hack ...

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Joshua Rogers, 17, lives in Melbourne, Australia. On June 5, he found a flaw in PayPal’s two-factor authentication security system. He reported it to PayPal that day. He says PayPal responded to him ...