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22M accounts exposed in Yahoo Japan breach

In Web/client - By Marcos Colon, 21 May 2013 9:11 AM

Users have been urged to change their passwords as a precaution.

Telecom NZ may ditch Yahoo email after hack

In Messaging - By Juha Saarinen, 13 February 2013 5:30 AM

Security breach the last straw?

Yahoo patches XSS mail flaw

In Applications - By Danielle Walker, 9 January 2013 10:17 AM

Researcher claims fix isn't adequate.

Hacker nabs Yahoo! site backups

In Hackers - By Darren Pauli, 17 December 2012 8:32 AM

Finds website flaws.

Yahoo! hit with data breach lawsuit

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 6 August 2012 1:36 PM

Claims Yahoo! didn't properly protect user personal information.

Yahoo! closes security hole

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 17 July 2012 11:46 AM

Promises to beef up security after password breach.

Yahoo! mail app may be behind Android spam

In Applications - By Fahmida Y. Rashid, 17 July 2012 11:46 AM

Doubt on botnet theory.

Researchers question Android spam botnet

In Applications - By Fahmida Y. Rashid, 9 July 2012 10:11 AM

More proof needed.

Yahoo! plugs leaky Axis extension

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 24 May 2012 10:53 PM

Chrome plugin loses shine at launch.

Hollywood cashes in on SOPA sponsorship

In Risk - By John Hilvert, 21 December 2011 7:57 AM

Entertainers outweigh software industry four to one on sponsor contributions.

Yahoo wins $610M spam judgment

In Applications - By Greg Masters, 13 December 2011 9:43 AM

Could be a win in name only.

Yahoo IM zero day patched

In Applications - By Darren Pauli, 9 December 2011 4:40 AM

Status messages hijacked.

Analysis: Yahoo! security chief remodells risk

In Risk - By Justin Somaini, CISO, Yahoo!, 2 June 2011 9:58 AM

The ability to ascertain the risk tolerance of the business gets less political pushback than just guessing.

Hackers fake SSL certificates for web services

In Crypto - By Ry Crozier, 24 March 2011 3:29 PM

Sophisticated attack thought to be state-sponsored.

Brisbane IT support shop goes with Spreets

In Web/client - By Negar Salek, 21 March 2011 2:43 PM

Yahoo!7 chosen for group buy PC tune-up.

Yahoo pins Microsoft for Phone 7 phantom data

In Messaging - By Liam Tung, 3 February 2011 2:42 PM

Non-conformist Microsoft.

Windows Phone 7 data flaw blamed on Yahoo

In Web/client - By Tom Brewster, 2 February 2011 11:39 AM

IMAP server incorrectly responds to FETCH requests.

Gawker breach prompts LinkedIn, Yahoo password resets

In Networks - By Angela Moscaritolo, 20 December 2010 1:56 PM

Antiquated encryption algorithm a key security flaw.

US government drops demands for Yahoo email details

In Risk - 20 April 2010 12:30 PM

Electronic Frontier Foundation announces victory in privacy case.

Yahoo faces showdown with US govt over email access

In Messaging - By Shaun Nichols, 16 April 2010 9:46 AM

Company goes to court to protect user privacy.

Yahoo accounts of journalists based in China and Taiwan hacked

In Web/client - By SC Australia Staff, 1 April 2010 3:11 PM

Foreign journalists and academics targeted.

Yahoo under fire from Chinese partner over Google hack

In Web/client - By Phil Muncaster, 18 January 2010 10:15 AM

Describes Yahoo's comments as 'reckless'.

Corporate spy risks from free email

In Messaging - By Neerav Bhatt, 13 January 2010 3:05 PM

Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail "completely vulnerable" by default.

Yahoo in legal spat over sensitive document

In Web/client - By Rosalie Marshall, 8 December 2009 9:42 AM

Web firm embarrassed by disclosures.

Flaw detected on Yahoo! website

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 17 November 2009 10:46 AM

Imperva points to jobs section.

Password breaches lead to rise in email spam

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 12 October 2009 11:25 AM

Researchers point to Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! password exposures.

Yahoo, Gmail passwords also phished in far-reaching scam

In Messaging - By Dan Kaplan, 7 October 2009 10:29 AM

Hotmail not the only target.

Yahoo Mail users warned of brute force attacks

In Messaging - By Phil Muncaster, 21 September 2009 1:48 PM

Two-year-old vulnerability exploited.

Yahoo pitches paid mail to slow spam

In Messaging - By Shaun Nichols, 17 August 2009 10:08 AM

Virtual stamp on messages.

Major spam campaign abusing Yahoo Groups

In Messaging - By Angela Moscaritolo, 24 July 2009 11:16 AM

About one million spam emails per hour are being sent to Yahoo Groups and other free web services, including Google Groups and LiveJournal, containing bogus pharmaceutical ...

Sponsored links on Yahoo and Google host malicious rogue software

Student pleads not guilty to Sarah Palin email exposure

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 11 March 2009 3:19 PM

A 21 year old student faces twenty years in prison for accessing Sarah Palin’s email account and publishing what he found.

Phishers launch multi-platform IM attack

In Messaging - By Phil Muncaster, 26 February 2009 10:38 AM

Users of internet chat services such as Google Chat have been hit by a major phishing attack aimed at stealing account log-in details, security researchers have warned.

Yahoo touts new spam protections

In Messaging - By Shaun Nichols, 22 January 2009 2:38 PM

Yahoo is touting a new set of tools it is using to block spam for its webmail service.

Yahoo to hold on to personal details for only 90 days

In Risk - By SC Australia Staff, 19 December 2008 10:09 AM

Yahoo has announced a new data retention policy that slashes the time personal details are held.

New version of CAPTCHA reduces spam to Yahoo and Hotmail

In Applications - By SC Australia Staff, 22 October 2008 9:55 AM

A recent reduction in Yahoo and Hotmail spam has been caused by scientists.

Court rules Palin 'must' hand over emails

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 15 October 2008 10:01 AM

A court in Alaska has ruled that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin must hand over emails sent via a private webmail account.

Yahoo Mail has huge hole

In Messaging - By Nick Farrell, 2 October 2008 12:15 PM

Yahoo's Zimbra client has a security hole so big you can fly an entire Borg collective through the middle of it and not worry about the cubes touching the sides.

No charges in Palin hacker investigation

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 25 September 2008 10:01 AM

A US federal grand jury has failed to return an indictment against the student accused of hacking into Sarah Palin's webmail account.

Fake 'Yahoo sold to Microsoft' spam boosts Rustock botnet

In Hackers - 25 July 2008 11:50 AM

A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.

Yahoo Mail cross-site scripting flaw targets IM users

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 26 June 2008 10:42 AM

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail could leave instant messenger users open to attack.

Yahoo and McAfee team to secure search results

In Web/client - By Dan Kaplan, 7 May 2008 10:21 AM

McAfee and Yahoo have joined forces to cleanse search results and identify websites that may be malicious in nature.

Click-fraud trojan targeting Yahoo, Google: Symantec

In Web/client - By Jim Carr, 17 March 2008 10:02 AM

Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a click-fraud trojan targeted to the online advertising networks of Google, Yahoo and Baidu.com, China's largest independent ...

ActiveX control flaws found in Yahoo! Music Jukebox: FrSIRT

In Applications - By Jack Rogers, 5 February 2008 4:55 PM

Critical ActiveX control flaws have been detected in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, which like vulnerabilities reported last week in MySpace and Facebook image uploaders, may permit ...

Yahoo names VeriSign's Balogh CTO

By Frank Washkuch, 31 January 2008 10:27 AM

In a move overshadowed by sizable layoffs announced this week, Yahoo has named VeriSign's Aristotle Balogh its new chief technology officer (CTO).

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live search engines contain page-caching flaw, says Aladdin

In Web/client - By Jim Carr, 7 December 2007 9:58 AM

Researchers at Aladdin Knowledge Systems have discovered a "significant" vulnerability in the page-caching technologies of three major search engines, allowing them to deliver ...

Yahoo and eBay hook up on phisher blocker

In Risk - By Matt Chapman, 5 October 2007 9:48 AM

Yahoo and eBay are joining forces to block phishing messages that specifically target PayPal users.

McAfee warns of Yahoo Messenger Webcam bug

In Messaging - By Frank Washkuch, 17 August 2007 9:57 AM

Users of Yahoo's instant messaging platform are being warned to avoid webcam invites from unknown sources after a vulnerability in the platform was disclosed this week.

ActiveX vulnerability hits Yahoo Widgets

In Applications - By Jim Carr, 30 July 2007 8:35 AM

Researchers at security research firm Secunia have revealed a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Yahoo's desktop Widgets. Widgets are software plug-ins that allow ...

Flaws revealed for Trillian, Yahoo IM platforms

In Web/client - By Frank Washkuch, 18 July 2007 10:53 AM

Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities were revealed for two widely used instant messaging platforms this week.

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