Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Is Paypal Secure enough?

AuctionBytes reported on Friday a vulnerability on the PayPal website that allowed anyone to find out if an email address was attached to a PayPal account, and if so, revealed the account holder's full name. Several hours after AuctionBytes contacted PayPal about the security issue the page raised, PayPal fixed it, calling it "a bug." Anyone who entered "https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=" in the address bar of their browser could enter an email address at the end of the URL and get a page displaying the account holder's name.
Many users not sure that PayPal sufficiently protects their identities and their accounts or is pro-active in defending against security breaches.

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