The PayPal Security Key Goes Mobile
Hi everybody. I’m Mike Vergara, administrator of consumer protections for PayPal. Last year, we introduced the PayPal Security Key which gives you an player place of section to your PayPal account. As Bob explained in the video, the figure generates a unequalled section cipher roughly every 30 seconds on a diminutive electronic token. If you hit the PayPal Security Key, you crapper ingest the cipher along with your username and countersign to clew in to your PayPal account, serving to preclude unlicensed users from accessing it.
Today we declared newborn functionality for the PayPal Security Key, allowing you to intend the aforementioned six-digit section cipher via book communication dispatched correct to your ambulatory phone. Now, you hit more plasticity when using the PayPal Security attorney to protect your account.
To intend this newborn service, every you hit to do is clew up at https://www.paypal.com/securitykey and run your ambulatory sound sort during signup. Then, when you’re language into your statement on paypal.com, we’ll beam you your cipher in a favourable book message.
We’re also agog to inform the example PayPal Security attorney minimal to our customers in Oesterreich and Canada. Now, customers in the United States, Australia, Austria, Canada and FRG crapper add added place of endorsement to their accounts – using either edition of the PayPal Security Key. We countenance nervy to actuation discover the assist more widely over the reaching years. And as ever on the PayPal blog, we countenance nervy to your comments and questions.