Yahoo: One Billion More Accounts Hacked
2016-12-15
Just months after disclosing a breach that compromised the passwords for a half billion of its users, Yahoo now says a separate incident has jeopardized data from at least aRead More →
The Yahoo spying scandal shows us exactly why we need encryption
2016-10-08
On Tuesday we found out internet giant Yahoo has been playing flunky for the FBI and NSA, helping the feds spy on hundreds of millions of Yahoo email users. ARead More →
Purported data from 200 million Yahoo accounts may be legit
2016-09-22
Supposedly hacked data surfaced on underground website for sale in August. In August, a dealer in stolen data who goes by the online moniker “Peace”—the person or persons who previously soldRead More →
Hackers Steal Nearly 100 Million User Records from Rambler.ru
2016-09-06
Rambler.ru, Russia’s Yahoo, suffered a data breach in 2012. Rambler.ru, a website nicknamed Russia’s Yahoo, suffered a data breach in 2012 at the hands of unknown hackers, who managed to stealRead More →
Click Fraud: 1M machines hacked for AdSense revenue
2016-05-18
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such as the Redirector.Paco Trojan have taken abuse to a whole newRead More →
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Forces to Create New Email Encryption Protocol
2016-03-21
Comcast and LinkedIn are also backing the proposal. A group of independent security researchers and major Silicon Valley tech giants have submitted last Friday, March 18, 2016, a proposal for aRead More →
Yahoo to Warn Users of State-Sponsored Attacks
2015-12-23
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. BobRead More →
Yahoo only the latest at “kill the password” altar
2015-10-17
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
Researchers Outline Vulnerabilities in Yahoo, PayPal, Magento Apps
2015-09-12
Researchers recently discovered a smattering of vulnerabilities in web applications and mobile applications belonging to companies like Yahoo, PayPal, Magento, and Shopify that could have led to account theft, session hijacking,Read More →
Malware menaces poison ads as Google, Yahoo! look away
2015-08-27
Booming attack vector offers mass malware distribution, stealthy targeting. Feature Online advertising has become an increasingly potent threat to end-user security on the internet. More hackers than ever are targetingRead More →
