The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over user communications, a request the company believed was unconstitutional. According to court documents unsealed Thursday t...
U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data
Yahoo Joins Google Effort to Encrypt Email
Yahoo said Thursday it will join an effort by rival Google to create an encrypted email system by next year that could make it mathematically impossible to hand over users’ messages to a court. If they’re successful, it would mark a big step in b...
Cross-site Request Forgery Vulnerability on Flickr
17 years old boy Mr.Abdullah Hussam from Iraq found that Cross-site request forgery vulnerability on Flicker, they had modifying parameters value of a Flickr HTTP request, with this vulnerability they can able to modify users’ profiles. Flickr is...
New Vulnerability on Yahoo, allow Hackers to delete comments on Yahoo sites
Again Yahoo Spotted by security researchers, from Security Geek discovered the new vulnerability on Yahoo. The vulnerability allowed me to delete any user comments in all these Yahoo sites. This vulnerability affected 90% of Yahoo’s Services, the...
Yahoo Encrypts Users Data to Protect from NSA
After revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden of internet surveillance, recently Yahoo decided and announced that is they are encrypting user data in an attempt to win back trust. Yahoo all traffic between its datacentres is now encrypted and...
XSS Vulnerability found on Tumblr Website
Security researcher found the XSS(Cross Site Scripting) Vulnerability found on Tumbler Website, researcher announced the this vulnerability via their twitter account @TheBreShiE. Researcher expecting the bug bounty reward for this vulnerability a...
Yahoo Third-party Database Compromised Email accounts are Accessed by Hackers.
Recently, Yahoo identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts. After that they are blast an announcement to protect their users, prompting them to reset passwords on impacted accounts. According to Yahoo state...
PHP Code Injection Vulnerability in Yahoo Website
Ebrahim Hegazy, A Web application penetration tester, has discovered a critical remote PHP code injection vulnerability in the Yahoo website that could allowed hackers to inject and execute any php code on the Yahoo server. A PHP Code Injection f...
Yahoo Going launch News Digest and Digital Magazines
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer uses CES keynote stage to announce a twice-daily news summary called Yahoo News Digest and the launch of news magazines, including a tech property led by new hire David Pogue. Yahoo News Digest provides the daily summaries...
Yahoo Ad Network is Carrying the Malware
Security researchers at Fox IT, a security firm based in the Netherlands say they've detected a malicious exploit kit among Yahoo's ad network active since December 30th. On January 3 they are detected and investigated the infection of clients a...
Massive Interruption on Yahoo Mail
On Monday, December 9th at 10:27 p.m. PT, Yahoo network operating center alerted the Mail engineering team to a specific hardware outage in one of thier storage systems serving 1% users. The Mail team immediately started working with the storage...
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