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Enlarge A recent phishing campaign targeting US government officials, activists, and journalists is notable for using a technique that allowed the attackers to bypass two-factor authentication protections offered by services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail, researchers said Thursday. The event underscores the risks of 2fa that relies on one-tap logins or one-time passwords, particularly […]
Verizon has united two faded names from internet 1.0 under its Oath brand. Now it needs a strategy. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2312e60105105e90d027f4/master/pass/TimArmstrong-h_6.05972801w.jpg
Enlarge / Yahoo! Inc. signage is displayed at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California in 2016. (credit: Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Canadian man who pled guilty last year to a massive spear-phishing operation of Yahoo employees—which ultimately resulted in 500 million accounts being compromised—has been sentenced to five years in prison. Karim Baratov, […]
Yahoo (and by extension, its parent/Engadget owner Verizon) now has no choice but to face the majority of claims in a US lawsuit over the internet giant’s multiple data breaches. California Judge Lucy Koh (of Apple-versus-Samsung fame) has denied Verizon’s bid to dismiss numerous claims in the suit, including breach of contract and negligence. The […]
Last month, Verizon signed a new deal with the NFL, exchanging its rights to be the exclusive wireless carrier for NFL games for rights to air games on a wider range of devices. That has led to a few new options for NFL fans when it comes to how they can watch games on their […]
Enlarge / Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov (far left) meets with other Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin (center) on November 24, 2017. (credit: Mikhail Klimentyev TASS via Getty Images) A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to hacking charges related to a 2014 spear-phishing operation of Yahoo employees. The hack ultimately compromised […]
While it’s doubtful that the US will catch the Russians accused of participating in the massive 2014 Yahoo breach, a third culprit appears ready to cooperate. Reuters has discovered that Canadian citizen Karim Baratov is slated to appear for a “change of plea” hearing on November 28th, indicating that he’s likely to plead guilty to […]
Yahoo Mail is down for hundreds of people who have said the e-mail is not working for them amid login problems and issues sending and reading messages. Independent website Down Detector has received hundreds of reports from Yahoo Mail users experiencing problems today. The reports of Yahoo Mail down began to pick up since 9am […]
(Reuters) — Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, which already had spawned a nationwide lawsuit. Yahoo said last December that data from more than 1 billion user accounts was compromised […]
Yahoo has tripled its initial estimate of the number of email accounts affected by a data breach in 2013. The company announced that all the 3 billion users who had a Yahoo email account at the time were affected and could have their data compromised. Oath, Yahoo’s new parent company, announced Tuesday that it is […]
