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PayPal, Square vulnerabilities impact mobile point-of-sale machines
2018-08-10 12:52

Researchers have disclosed the existence of point-of-sale bugs which impact mobile payment services worldwide.

PayPal's pal Venmo spaffs your pals' payments - and yours
2018-07-18 07:03

200 million transactions visible to all, inc. the inside dope on a cannabis seller's annual sales PayPal-owned digital wallet Venmo shares way too much data via its public API, according to...

PayPal reminds users: TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 are longer optional
2018-06-20 03:52

Insecure connections will break after June 30th. And it's acquired Hyperwallet, too PayPal has reminded merchants that they must support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 by June 30.…

The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With
2018-03-14 11:24

One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider...

Phishers target panicking PayPal users with fake “failed transaction” emails
2017-12-04 15:30

With the end-of-the-year holidays quickly approaching and many users worrying whether the gifts they bought online will be delivered in time for the festivities, an email from PayPal saying their...

PayPal Subsidiary Data Breach Hits Up to 1.6 Million Customers
2017-12-04 08:33

Global e-commerce business PayPal has disclosed a data breach that may have compromised personally identifiable information for roughly 1.6 million customers at a payment processing company PayPal...

Breach at PayPal Subsidiary Affects 1.6 Million Customers
2017-12-04 05:43

PayPal informed customers on Friday that personal information for 1.6 million individuals may have been obtained by hackers who breached the systems of its subsidiary TIO Networks. read more

How PayPal Protects Billions of Transactions (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-23 13:47

In an in-depth interview, Guru Bhat, head of engineering at PayPal, describes how the online payments provider has used a mix of sophisticated automation, including machine learning, and human...