Tag: Yahoo

September 30, 2016

With the recent announcement of more than 500 million accounts impacted by a security breach, many Yahoo users have been changing their passwords. After all, that’s the official guidance. However, as ZDI’s Simon Zuckerbraun points out, a new password isn’t enough. […]

September 27, 2016

Yahoo is facing a class action lawsuit that alleges that the internet firm showed a reckless disregard for the security of its users that resulted in a breach affecting half a billion accounts A New Yorker is suing Yahoo over […]

September 26, 2016

Yahoo’s claim that it is the victim of a gigantic state-sponsored hack raises the question of whether it is the latest target for hackers with the backing of Russia, China or even North Korea, experts say. The US internet giant […]

September 23, 2016

Following rumors that an announcement was soon to come, Yahoo! said Thursday that hackers managed to access data from at least 500 million user accounts in a cyber-attack dating back to 2014. The company said hackers breached its network in […]

August 3, 2016

Data of some 200 million Yahoo users has been offered for sale on the TheRealDeal dark web market by “peace_of_mind” (aka “Peace”). Even though Yahoo is yet to confirm whether the batch actually contains their users’ data, chances are good […]

July 27, 2016

Verizon’s planned US$4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo is likely to create an international consumer tracking powerhouse, and that’s raising serious privacy concerns. Combined with other recent acquisitions, the Yahoo deal will allow Verizon to track consumers not only on the […]

September 28, 2015

#yahoo has open-sourced Gryffin, a #scanning platform for #web applications. The developers’ goal was to create a security scanner that will be able to both discover as much of the application footprint as possible (crawl phase), and to test the […]

September 14, 2015

#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, and phishing, among other consequences. Hadji Samir, Ebrahim Hegazy, […]

August 4, 2015

The online advertising industry has witnessed the emergence of “invisible enemies” that pass themselves off as regular online users – the infamous bots. This network of zombie users has become a serious headache for businesses and this is reflected in […]

July 22, 2015

Some of the biggest digital companies have banded together to take action on the rising tide of ad click fraud. Companies including Facebook and Yahoo! have created a blacklist that aims to block fake ad traffic, according to The Register. […]

June 22, 2015

Security researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski is warning of a simple – yet clever – spear-phishing scam that is targeting Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users in an effort to trick them into letting an attacker take over their accounts. The attack method […]

September 19, 2014

By Sophie Sassard and Arno Schuetze LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – French low-cost telecom operator Iliad has set a mid-October deadline to decide whether to improve its bid for T-Mobile US or walk away as it faces resistance from seller Deutsche Telekom, […]

September 19, 2014

Living with the iPhone 6 Plus, part 2: In our post-review check-in, Tim takes a deeper look at living with SwiftKey on the iPhone 6 Plus versus his current go-to phablet phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

September 19, 2014

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – By promoting its two presidents to serve as co-chief executives instead of founder and CEO Larry Ellison, database-and-software behemoth Oracle is setting itself a course that has confounded other big companies. The move […]

September 19, 2014

Move over Google, Sony has its own take on smart glasses and is aiming to get them to market by March 2015.

September 19, 2014

Last night, researchers at MalwareBytes noticed strange behavior on sites like Last.fm, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Ads on the sites were being unusually aggressive, setting off anti-virus warnings and raising flags in a number of MalwareBytes […]

September 19, 2014

Microsoft is moving its Lumia phones to a new home. The software maker is planning to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands this holiday season, and it has now started to move Nokia.com to Microsoft.com in preparation. A […]

September 19, 2014

Arriving in stores this October, the Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard is compatible not only with Windows but also with Android and iOS.

September 19, 2014

Moscow (AFP) – Russia is considering measures to protect its cyberspace from the unpredictable West, President Vladimir Putins spokesman said on Friday after a newspaper said Moscow was contemplating unplugging the Internet during protests or war.

September 18, 2014

By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc executives showed off robots made with smartphone technology at an annual developer conference on Thursday, but they steered clear of talking about China, a key growth market where the chipmaker is […]