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The once web titan Yahoo has faced over four data breaches to date. The biggest one so far was in 2013 which affected over three billion Yahoo email account holders. Another one in late 2014 compromised data of over five hundred million users, the next one in 2016 where 200 million user accounts went for […]
Many people resort to pornography websites to satisfy their bodily needs. On the contrary, an ex-Yahoo engineer went miles ahead and hacked into real people’s accounts instead. Reyes Daniel Ruiz compromised 6,000 accounts of Yahoo users in order to find sexual videos and images. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose for […]
The vulnerability could have been used to extract messages from users and to inject malicious code their outgoing messages Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported that Yahoo has corrected a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) in the Yahoo Mail service. The vulnerability could have been exploited by […]
Finnish fellow scores $10k bug bounty for reporting malformed HTML mess. Video A stored XSS vuln in Yahoo! Mail has netted Finnish researcher Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki a US$10,000 bug bounty. Pynnönen turned up the bug with a bit of old-fashioned brute force: he fed the system an HTML e-mail containing “all known HTML tags […]