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Paypal vs Venmo security: Which is more secure?
PayPal vs Venmo: Which is more secure? Choosing an online payment service isn’t just about convenience. Whether you’re paying for online shopping or accepting payments from clients, you should know whether PayPal or Venmo is more secure. People often ask us: Is PayPal safe? (And is Venmo safe?) In this guide, we’ve answered these critical payment app security questions. Our…
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Google Wallet is losing access to PayPal
Google Wallet will soon no longer let you pay with your PayPal account in the US. On a help center page spotted by Android Authority, Google says it will stop supporting the payment method and automatically delete linked PayPal accounts on June 13th, 2025. The company has also stopped letting users link PayPal accounts to Wallet as of April 11th.…
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PayPal launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany after EU forced Apple to open up
PayPal’s contactless wallet works with terminals that support Mastercard payments and is iPhone-only for now, so it won’t work on an Apple Watch, iPhone Ticker reports (via a machine translation). In December, a Norwegian payment app called Vipps became the first to take advantage of Apple’s changing ecosystem, nearly a year after Apple first announced it was opening up its…
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PayPal “New Address” feature abused to send phishing emails
An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform’s address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month, BleepingComputer and others [1, 2] have received emails from PayPal stating, “You added a new address. This is just a quick confirmation that you added an address in your PayPal account.” The email includes…
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PayPal to pay $2 million settlement over 2022 data breach
New York State has announced a $2,000,000 settlement with PayPal over charges it failed to comply with the state’s cybersecurity regulations, leading to a 2022 data breach. The Department of Financial Services (DFS) action says that threat actors took advantage of security gaps in PayPal’s systems to conduct credential stuffing attacks that provided access to sensitive customer information. In 2023, PayPal…
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