If you’ve ever shopped online, sent money to a friend, or run a small business, chances are you’ve used or at least considered using PayPal. With millions of users worldwide, PayPal is one of the most ...

The flaw lies in the way that the PayPal authentication flow works with the service’s mobile apps for iOS and Android. It’s on the server side, and researchers at Duo Security developed a ...

It seems like hardly a week goes by without some major company announcing that they’ve suffered a security breach, and this time it’s PayPal, one of the world’s most popular online payment platforms.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s where it gets interesting: PayPal’s systems weren’t actually “compromised” in the traditional sense. Bad actors didn’t need ...

PayPal has at least temporarily shut off two-factor authentication for the PayPal mobile app after a security researcher found a way to bypass that second factor. "These [two factor authentication] ...

A recent data theft at PayPal caused a huge stir when a hacker was found wanting to sell access data to around 15.8 million accounts online—including user passwords in plain text. This type of data ...

Q: I suddenly started getting security passcodes from PayPal even though I wasn’t using it. Does this mean someone has my password and is trying to get in? A: It can be quite disconcerting to get a ...

The idea of a "human in the loop" in AI deployment was challenged during a security executive panel at the RSAC 2026 ...

“We have found a serious issue in PayPal's contactless payment,” security researcher Markus Fenske explained to me. He claims that when using PayPal there is a vulnerability that Fenske and colleague ...

Payment services provider PayPal will reward security researchers who discover vulnerabilities in its website with money, if they report their findings to the company in a responsible manner. “I’m ...

Are you one of those people who paid PayPal for a security token thinking that it made your account safer? If you did, I have bad news for you ... The security token is a pretty cool bit of kit. It's ...