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Comcast and LinkedIn are also backing the proposal. A group of independent security researchers and major Silicon Valley tech giants have submitted last Friday, March 18, 2016, a proposal for a new email protocol called SMTP STS (Strict Transport Security). STMP has never been a secure protocol, mainly because at the moment it was invented, in […]
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. Bob Lord, who was hired as the company’s new CISO in October, discussed the initiative in a blog post Monday. Lord said Yahoo will only notify users […]
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torches and pitchforks on the march to kill the password as a way to repair authentication for consumers and enterprises. The ongoing deathwatch is a popular […]
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, Ayoub Ait Elmokhtar, and Benjamin Kunz Mejri, researchers with Vulnerability Lab, found the bugs earlier this […]
Booming attack vector offers mass malware distribution, stealthy targeting. Feature Online advertising has become an increasingly potent threat to end-user security on the internet. More hackers than ever are targeting the internet’s money engine, using it as a powerful attack vector to hide exploits and compromise huge numbers of victims. Malvertising, as poisoned ads are […]
You will not need your fingerprints or the face-detection feature of your phone very soon to ensure that your tablet or smartphone is safe and secure. Now, Yahoo researchers have come up with a new concept called Bodyprint, which claims to be a lot more reliable and all it requires is that you’re using a […]
Yahoo made two major announcements this week regarding its security protocol. One was the launching of the new “on-demand” password service and the other was the release of Yahoo mail’s end-to-end encryption source code that is available on GitHub. The product management director for Yahoo, Chris Stoner, explained that the company’s on-demand password service is […]
Indian government has banned the third-party email services in its government offices including Google, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. Indian government officials will now be having pretty much limited access to internet in their offices. Apart from the limited internet, they will be additionally monitored and the content which will be inappropriate for productivity of the officials, […]
Yahoo Inc. has announced that around 435,000 emails and passwords have been hacked and leaked online by a hacking group known as D33D Company. According to the security firm TrustedSec, the hacked emails and passwords have been to be stored without encryption and in a plain text. That means anyone can change the passwords and use the information. TrustedSec […]