PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover ...

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 ...

A security researcher has uncovered a simple method for bypassing the two-factor authentication mechanism that PayPal uses to protect accounts that are tied to eBay accounts. The vulnerability is ...

Two-factor authentication is the go-to hacker prevention step when it comes to account protection, but hot on the heels of news surrounding major data breaches at eBay, Target and a number of other ...