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 ...

PayPal Inc. has added a new security option for its accountholders, the San Jose, Calif.-based company announced today. The PayPal SMS Security Key is a one-time, six-digit security code PayPal sends ...

If you have a PayPal account you need to be on high alert for a new type of scam that appears to be doing the rounds. The ...

If you open the message, it claims that a new payment profile has been detected on your PayPal account and that a $910 charge is about to be processed. The goal is to create a sense of urgency, ...

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

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 ...