December 1, 2022
Via: Security AffairsData breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly. Here are three of the worst data breaches that […]
April 14, 2020
Via: Computer WeeklyA tenth of all brand phishing attempts seen in the first three months of 2020 related to Apple, an 8% rise over the previous calendar quarter, as cyber criminals capitalised on the firm’s powerful brand recognition, according to statistics compiled […]
October 1, 2019
Via: Security WeekA former Yahoo software engineer has admitted in court to hacking into the accounts of thousands of the platform’s users. The man, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to accessing about 6,000 Yahoo accounts, in search of […]
Application security, Network security, Security
April 11, 2019
Via: Threat PostYahoo is offering to cough up $117.5 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its massive data breaches that compromised the personal information of three billion users. The new $117.5 million settlement, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in San […]
October 24, 2018
Via: Hot for SecurityThe now-defunct Yahoo has reached a $50 million settlement with 200 million U.S. residents whose personal data was stolen in the biggest known data breach in history. Customers will also get two years’ worth of free credit monitoring. Hackers compromised […]
Network security, Privacy protection
September 19, 2018
Via: Hot for SecurityEveryone remembers the Yahoo breach — it was simply historical and created mass hysteria at the time. The company ultimately confirmed in late 2017 that, following an alleged state-sponsored attack, all user accounts had been breached – that is 3 […]
March 13, 2018
Via: The HillA federal judge ruled that individuals affected by the Yahoo data breaches can sue the company. Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday ruled against a motion from Verizon, which bought […]
March 17, 2017
Via: CIOWhen governments turn to private hackers to carry out state-sponsored attacks, as the FBI alleges Russia did in the 2014 breach of Yahoo, they’re taking a big risk. On the one hand, it gives them a bit of plausible deniability […]
February 8, 2017
Via: Zone AlarmThere has been a lot of trouble for Yahoo users lately since they announced there was a breach of 1 billion Yahoo accounts in August 2013, and then in September released a statement that in 2014 an additional 500 million […]
January 27, 2017
Via: We Live SecurityInternet giant Yahoo has confirmed it is to be investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with two major data breaches discovered at the company last year. In a November 2016 quarterly filing, the company said […]
Access control, Data loss, Editorial
December 21, 2016
Via: Russel EdwardsYahoo breaches have become similar to Adobe Flash patches – one seems to hear about them endlessly. The company strives to explain and investigate. Yet there is even more to add to the damage report as time goes by. On […]
December 19, 2016
Via: SoftpediaAndrew Komarov, chief intelligence office at security firm InfoArmor, said two of the buyers were “prominent spammers,” while the third is believed to be involved in espionage attacks and might be planning to use the 1 billion accounts for similar […]
December 16, 2016
Via: Security WeekThe 2013 hack affecting a billion Yahoo users shows how seemingly innocuous bits of data gleaned from cyber attacks can be exploited for espionage and information warfare, as well as for profit. The breach, disclosed Wednesday, is the largest on […]
December 15, 2016
Via: SoftpediaYahoo has just confirmed that more than 1 billion accounts got hacked in 2013 by what the company believes to be a “state-sponsored actor” that was also responsible for breaching 500 million accounts in a separate attack that the firm […]
Email security, Vulnerabilities
December 12, 2016
Via: Softpediaahoo Mail can hardly be considered a secure email service after the parent company experienced a massive breach exposing 500 million accounts in 2014 but decided to keep it secret, and yet, every new vulnerability is still worrying for its […]
October 21, 2016
Via: InfoWorldYahoo is asking that the U.S. government set the record straight on requests for user data, following reports saying the internet company has secretly scanned customer emails for terrorism-related information. On Wednesday, Yahoo sent a letter to the Director of National […]
October 17, 2016
Via: The HillA bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for a briefing by Attorney General Loretta Lynch on reports that Yahoo searched all of its users emails at the behest of the U.S. government. Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) […]
October 10, 2016
Via: The HillSoftware that Yahoo installed at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI may have been more malicious than originally reported, Motherboard reports. A New York Times story asserted that Yahoo developed software to search all emails for signatures […]
October 6, 2016
Via: InfoWorldYahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program “misleading,” and said no such system exists. On Tuesday, the Reuters article claimed that Yahoo had created the custom software program after receiving a classified U.S. government order. […]
October 3, 2016
Via: DataBreach TodayThe record-breaking Yahoo breach wasn’t perpetrated by nation-state attackers, as Yahoo has claimed, but rather by a group of “professional blackhats from Eastern Europe” who are also suspected of stealing and reselling customer data from LinkedIn, MySpace and Tumblr, according […]