PayPal is opening a new security center in Israel, it announced on Tuesday as part of a strategic decision to expand its security efforts. “Located in one of the world’s top cybersecurity hubs, this new security center will allow us Read more
Israeli press are reporting PayPal made another acquisition, this one a “predictive cyber security company.” According to Globes.co.il, it’s PayPal’s second acquisition of an Israeli firm. When asked to confirm the acquisition of CyActive, a PayPal spokesperson told EcommerceBytes, “We Read more
Merchants who use PayPal on their websites need to take action, as PayPal will end support for SSL v3 on December 3, 2014. PayPal Chief Technology Officer James Barrese posted a message for sellers on the PayPal blog, letting them Read more
PayPal warned merchants that its fix for a new security vulnerability may cause problems for shoppers trying to Pay for items on their websites. PayPal’s Chief Technology Officer James Barrese took to the company’s blog to address a new vulnerability Read more
A reader alerted us to a report of another security vulnerability on PayPal, saying he had tested the method described by a search-engine marketing services company located in Texas. “I saw your post last month about the security vulnerability that Read more
Researchers at a security firm discovered a vulnerability in PayPal’s two-factor authentication (2FA) – what PayPal calls the Security Key mechanism. However, as the Guardian newspaper reported, attackers would need a PayPal user’s username and password to compromise accounts, but said “the Read more
Webmasters and security experts must deal with yet another vulnerability affecting a popular open-source software. Named Covert Redirect, it affects authentication software OpenID and authorization software OAuth, making visitors to websites vulnerable to phishing attacks that try to trick users Read more
eBay responded to claims of a breach of security at its PayPal payments unit in a report that was published in a blog post by a former Google software engineer. Naoki Hiroshima published the post, “My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Read more
