SecurityRatty: EBays PayPal uses e-mail authentication to combat fraud

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EBays PayPal uses e-mail authentication to combat fraud

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security

E-commerce giant eBay and its Paypal subsidiary are the most-spoofed brands by fraudster today, according to research firm Gartner. Mike Vergara, senior director of accounts protection at PayPal, discusses what the e-commerce giant is doing to protect its customers, including the new e-mail signing and checking effort to make sure customers aren’t being phished.