![]() ![]() The following instructions have been tested on Linux on a Raspberry Pi. How you install this willĭepend on your operating system. In order to use this work around, you will need a computer that can run Python. There are several versions of this application but only one seems to be maintained, the version by Dan Lenski. This will let us pretend to be a Symantec VIP hardware token. We will use a set of scripts called python-vipaccess. You will need some minimal knowledge of using a command line. ![]() Here is a work around that will let you use a standard authenticator app with PayPal. Some of the better authenticator apps such as LastPass Authenticator and Authy provide the ability to back up your accounts. But it is certainly pretty painful to do it. So, it turns out that we can use a standard authenticator app. Solution 2 - Using a Standard Authenticator App □︎ ![]() It would be FAR better if we could use on of the more standard authenticator apps such as those listed above. There doesn’t appear to be any way to back up that configuration in case your phone is lost, broken or stolen. Then you also provide the Security Code from the app that is currently showing, wait for the next code to show and enter that as well. ![]() The “Serial number” field on the Activate your PayPal Security Key page. It will show you a “Credential ID” that you will use to plug into You can download the app from your phone’s app store. However, they did replace it with a mobile app. The old Symantec VIP access tokens are long gone. It is called Activate your PayPal Security Key.īut how do we get a mobile app that will generate the right codes to go with this page? Solution 1 - the Symantec VIP app □︎ In fact, though, PayPal’s alternative token registration does still exist on their website (at least for now). Please help everyone by complaining to PayPal directly and on social media so that they understand that customers no longer find this behaviour acceptable. Using those alternatives isn’t especially obvious. You can also have PayPal phone youĪnd you get some backup manual codes that you can type in instead. Once registered, that phone will receive SMS text messages when you try to log in. So, when you go onto PayPal and try to activate two-factor authentication, they try to force you to register a phone. That way, you can keep control of your important accounts. Phone in the case that yours is lost, stolen or broken. Especially since you can backup the authenticator details and use them on another These are really well-known issues and it is appalling that PayPal haven’t allowed people to use authenticator apps for two-factorĪuthentication as these are a lot more secure. If the second-factor for those systems uses your phone then they hijack those Passwords to key systems such as PayPal, Email, etc. Once they have a new SIM, they hijack your account and go about changing Phone service provider that you need a replacement SIM card. Is where an attacker gets enough information about you that they can pretend to be you and then go on to be able to persuade your mobile Relatively easily (a problem particularly in the USA) but there is now an epidemic of phone account hijacking. Not only can SMS text messages be intercepted Unfortunately, over the years since then, the weaknesses of SMS have been discovered. Then, carrying mobile phones of some sort. Instead, they adopted the use of SMS text messages - which were also adopted by many others due to the fact that most people were, by Examples of these apps are: LastPass Authenticator, Authy, Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator. Using “soft” tokens from a standard authenticatorĪpp on smartphones. However, they never did adopt what the rest of the world started doing. Neither of these hardware tokens are available any more. Depending on what country you were in, you could get one of their own hardware tokens or use a PayPal were early adopters of two factor authentication at a time when there was significant distrust in themĪs an organisation. ![]()
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