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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

A security feature offered by PayPal to help prevent accounts from being taken over by hackers can be easily circumvented, an Australian security researcher has found. PayPal users can elect to ...

PayPal has temporarily disabled two-factor authentication for its mobile apps while it works on a patch for a newly discovered flaw that bypasses the security feature. Independent researcher Dan ...

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 ...

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, ...

My friend, colleague and former graduate student Carl Ness recently wrote to me excitedly, “It’s about time this reached the consumer… I got mine yesterday, and I must say, it works really well. Now ...

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 ...

A security feature offered by PayPal to help prevent accounts from being taken over by hackers can be easily circumvented, an Australian security researcher has found. PayPal users can elect to ...

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 ...