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2020-07-06 16:02:50 |
Ex-Yahoo employee avoids jail, despite hacking 6000 accounts, and stealing nude photos and videos (lien direct) |
A former employee of Yahoo has been sentenced and ordered to pay a fine after exploiting his privileged access to hack into the personal accounts of thousands of Yahoo users, in his hunt for naked photographs and videos of young women.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2019-10-10 08:37:46 |
Smashing Security #149: Falling in love with fraudsters (lien direct) |
We take a trip to Staten Island, New York, to hear how a case of cyberstalking resulted in the arrest of 20 alleged mobsters, learn about the nude photo-loving insider threat at Yahoo, and discover how fraudsters might be boosting Match.com’s profits.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Ran Levi of “Malicious Life.”
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2019-10-04 12:51:28 |
Former Yahoo employee admits he hacked 6000 users\' accounts, stole nude photos and videos (lien direct) |
A former Yahoo software engineer has admitted hacking into thousands of Yahoo users’ accounts in a search for naked images and videos of young women.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2018-05-30 13:10:05 |
Jail for the man who helped Russia hack Yahoo\'s email accounts (lien direct) |
A hacker who lived the high life with expensive cars has been sentenced to jail for his part in a serious security breach at Yahoo.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2017-10-04 00:17:57 |
The biggest hack in history is actually three times bigger than we feared (lien direct) |
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2017-03-30 09:24:51 |
Smashing Security #014: Protecting webmail (lien direct) |
What can you do to better protect your online email accounts?
In this special edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast, regular hosts Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined by special guest Paul Ducklin, share tips on how to better defend your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Outlook/etc account.
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2017-03-02 00:46:06 |
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will miss out on cash bonus after security breaches (lien direct) |
Also it is revealed that hackers accessed 32 million Yahoo user accounts in the last two years using forged cookies.
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2017-01-24 15:12:53 |
Yahoo sale to Verizon delayed, following revelation of massive security breaches (lien direct) |
If you're in the business of scooping up another company, you probably want to uncover all of its dirty little secrets before you hand over any cash.
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2016-12-19 13:28:12 |
Yahoo\'s billion account database for sale on the black market (lien direct) |
The records of more than one billion Yahoo users have reportedly been sold on the computer underground.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2016-12-15 09:16:11 |
Yahoo hack - a billion reasons to change your email account (lien direct) |
At one billion records, it's the biggest data breach ever.
Check out my late night YouTube live stream about the incident, and read more.
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2016-11-10 10:24:01 |
Some Yahoo staff knew in 2014 that it had been hacked (lien direct) |
Yahoo has admitted that some of its staff knew back in 2014 that its systems had been breached by hackers.
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2016-10-24 09:09:12 |
How to delete your Yahoo account (lien direct) |
Thinking of deleting your Yahoo account? Here are the steps, and things you should consider first...
David Bisson reports.
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2016-10-14 14:34:43 |
Verizon is playing hard ball with Yahoo after hack (lien direct) |
Verizon could reduce the price it will pay to acquire Yahoo, or walk away from the $5 billion deal completely.
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2016-10-12 12:42:15 |
Yahoo accused of deliberately making it hard to close your account (lien direct) |
It's not as easy to up sticks and leave your Yahoo account for dead as it used to be...
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2016-10-10 20:43:37 |
Yahoo has a creepy plan for advertising billboards to spy on you (lien direct) |
The billboards would use a variety of sensor systems, including cameras and proximity technology, to capture real-time audio, video and even biometric information about potential target audiences.
David Bisson reports.
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2016-10-09 21:34:53 |
Spy program could have given hacker access to all Yahoo email, claims ex-employee (lien direct) |
According to a report in "The Intercept", the snooping code was implemented in such a way that it could have allowed a hacker to "basically read everyone's Yahoo mail."
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2016-10-09 19:38:21 |
EU privacy watchdogs concerned by Yahoo\'s email scanning (lien direct) |
Privacy watchdogs based in the European Union are concerned Yahoo violated European users' privacy with its secret email-scanning program.
David Bisson reports.
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2016-10-04 20:05:08 |
It\'s time to close your Yahoo account (lien direct) |
Hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts had their emails scanned on behalf of US intelligence, reports Reuters.
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Yahoo
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2016-09-30 17:26:23 |
Security firm pours cold water on Yahoo\'s state-sponsored hack claim (lien direct) |
A security company has found evidence that suggests state-sponsored attackers may not have been responsible for the hack that saw 500 million Yahoo users' account details stolen.
David Bisson reports.
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2016-09-29 00:24:27 |
Yahoo could have reset all user passwords two years ago, but chose not to (lien direct) |
Yahoo insiders say that protecting against hackers took a back seat.
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2016-09-26 14:27:10 |
Yahoo is being sued over its massive hack (lien direct) |
Could Yahoo could have done more to protect itself, and why didn't it notice it had suffered a data breach sooner?
While those questions are being pondered, legal eagles will be earning a pretty penny working on this lawsuit...
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2016-09-26 13:53:43 |
Don\'t have a Yahoo email address and think you\'re safe from the hack? (lien direct) |
It turns out it's not as simple as just checking whether you have a Yahoo, BT Yahoo Mail or Sky email address...
You could have a Yahoo account without even knowing it.
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2016-09-23 10:43:06 |
Sky customers told to change passwords after massive Yahoo hack (lien direct) |
Do you have a Sky email account? There's potentially bad news - that service comes courtesy of Yahoo.
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2016-09-23 10:30:56 |
BT investigates Yahoo hack, tells BT Yahoo mail users to reset passwords (lien direct) |
With at least 500 million Yahoo users exposed by the 2014 hack, other services are also advising customers to reset their passwords.
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2016-09-22 19:01:25 |
Yahoo confirms: at least 500 million accounts hacked in 2014 data breach (lien direct) |
Yahoo CISO Bob Lord writes:
We have confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected. Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo's network.
My advice?
Reset your Yahoo password. Make it a strong, complex password - and make sure that you are not using the same password anywhere else on the net.
If you were using the same password in multiple places, you need to get out of that habit right now. Reusing passwords is a disaster waiting to happen, and could allow hackers to crack open other accounts using the same credentials.
Invest in a decent password manager program to generate random, hard-to-crack passwords, store them securely and remember them for you.
If you haven't already done so, enable two-step verification on your Yahoo account.
Watch out for phishing emails that pretend to come from Yahoo.
More as this news develops.
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2016-09-22 08:24:29 |
Yahoo \'expected to confirm massive data breach\', says Recode (lien direct) |
As Yahoo poises to sell up to Verizon, it may have some bad news to share. Recode reports that "several hundred million" account credentials may have been impacted by a data breach.
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