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 latest attack - which has been spotted by the eagle-eyed team at Malwarebytes ...

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 ...

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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 ...

What is two-factor authentication, and why do experts say it's the key to better online security? Two-factor authentication—often referred to as two-step authentication and 2FA—is a method for keeping ...