PayPal : un nouvel outil pour combattre la fraude
PayPal et eBay ont mis au point un nouveau système de sécurité pour combattre les pirates et la fraude. Issu de l’acquisition de Verisign Payment Services, l’appareil produit un numéro à six chiffres différent toutes les 30 secondes et lors de la connexion au compte PayPal, l’utilisateur doit entrer son mot de passe ainsi que le numéro généré automatiquement à ce moment particulier. La solution est proposée à 5$ à ceux qui souhaitent participer aux tests. e-business
The PayPal unit of eBay has gone to public beta with its SecurityKey two-factor authentication unit, a product of its acquisition of Verisign Payment Services. By selling the devices for $5 to anyone who wants to participate in the public beta program, eBay is taking a loss, said Dan Levy, PayPal's senior director of consumer protection. PayPal Business accounts can get the device for free. Levy wouldn't promise that the $5 price would be maintained after the program moved beyond the beta phase. "We're looking at a few months' worth of feedback," Levy said.ADVERTISEMENTIn the contract eBay signed with Verisign, it targeted purchasing a million of the tokens over three years. To put that number into context, PayPal alone has about 133 million customers and eBay has about 222 million registered users. Clearly, PayPal does not intend for a significant percentage of its users to purchase the device. "We don't think the typical consumer" will adopt it, Levy said. "The typical consumer already feels pretty comfortable with the security of our service." One hesitation he expects some users to have about the device is convenience. "It's one extra thing they need to carry around," he said, adding that PayPal is also considering several formfactors. The device—which generates a new six-digit security code every 30 seconds—is not new, as marketing material for it started appearing on eBay and PayPal sites in December.