The internet doesn't care about security
By Russell Brandom

One of the most trusted companies on the internet has been owned by a teen.

We learned this morning that Paypal's two-factor authentication setup has a fairly major hole in it, detailed here. The researcher who found it, a 17-year-old who has done impressive work spotting vulnerabilities in Australian government sites, first reported the bug to Paypal back in June, but after two months of radio silence, he went public.

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August 5, 2014 at 2:38PM
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