Friday, January 11, 2013

That Yahoo Mail Vulnerability -- Not Really Fixed

hackers_380 If you're seeing a spike in people apologizing via their Facebook and Twitter feeds about how their email accounts have been hacked in recent days, there's a better-than-average chance that the email account inIt involved sending a link to a Yahoo mail user, who then presumably takes the bait and clicks the link, which has the effect of mining enough information about their account credentials that the attacker can later take over the target's account. YahooWe're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting Yahoo! Mail users use HTTPS to access their e-mail accounts securely. (That means that, just a few days into 2013, we got one of the items on our holiday wishlist!)Two out of three of those are declining precipitously fast, according to new ComScore numbers cited by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Specifically, U.S. search traffic was down 24 percent from December 2011 to DecemberWe're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting Yahoo! Mail users use HTTPS to access their e-mail accounts securely. (That means that, just a few days into 2013, we got one of the items on our holiday wishlist!)
Related External LinksYahoo Mail Security Proving to Be a Nightmare - TrainSignalYahoo Mail Still Contains The XSS Vulnerability | The Tech JournalYahoo Mail 2013 Allegedly Hacked via XSS Exploit | File-24.com

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