Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarYahoo says 32m user accounts were accessed via cookie forging attackverified_publisherZDNET - Asha BarbaschowThe former tech giant believes a sophisticated cookie forging attack was used to access 32 million Yahoo accounts. Yahoo has said that an unauthorised …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarDozens of U.S. lawmakers request briefing on Yahoo email scanningNBC News - By ReutersA group of lawmakers asked the Obama administration to brief Congress "as soon as possible" about a 2015 Yahoo program to scan incoming email. A bipartisan group of 48 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday asked the Obama administration to brief Congress "as soon as possible" …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarWhy Verizon Now Thinks Yahoo’s Data Breach Could Halt the Mergerverified_publisherFortune - ReutersVerizon Communications said on Thursday it has a “reasonable basis” to believe Yahoo’s massive data breach of email accounts represents a material …
Avatarbryan taylorFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDigital privacy campaign urges users to 'Dump Yahoo'csmonitor.com - Jeff StoneThe tech advocacy group Fight for the Future is calling on Yahoo users to delete accounts after reports alleged the company let US officials scan …
Avatarbryan taylorFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 companies now control 80% of America's contracted spyingboingboing.net - Andrea JamesAmerica paid about $16 billion to five companies last year for 80% of our contracted domestic and international surveillance: Leidos Holdings, CSRA …
Avatarbryan taylorFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDid Yahoo just shut down basic email forwarding to stop users from leaving?bgr.com - Chris Smith“This is all extremely suspicious timing,” Jason Danner, who runs an IT company and used Yahoo Mail for 18 years, told LA Times. Yahoo pointed to a …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarUS required to declassify Yahoo spying order, say expertsverified_publisherZDNET - Zack WhittakerThe Freedom Act was passed last year in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks. The Obama administration "must declassify" a secret court order that …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarYahoo shuts off email-forwarding feature, making it harder for users to leaveverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesAs Yahoo’s embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, some users are finding it hard to leave. Automatic email forwarding was disabled at the beginning of the month, several users said. Although those who have set up forwarding in the past are unaffected, some who want to leave over …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarU.S. pressed to disclose secret court's order on Yahoo email searchverified_publisherReuters - Joseph MennSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. senator and civil groups critical of surveillance practices on Friday called on the government to release a 2015 order by a secret court directing Yahoo to scan all its users' incoming email, saying it appeared to involve new interpretations of at least two …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarReuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel moduleverified_publisherEngadget - Richard LawlerPoliticians and privacy groups want to see the court order authorizing this bulk surveillance. In the ever evolving saga of Yahoo's email servers and who could peek into them, the latest nugget comes from a Reuters report that the scanning program operated at a deeper level than mail filters for porn …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarWhy Did Yahoo Allow the Government to Scan Emails?Newsweek - Julian SanchezReuters dropped a bombshell story on Tuesday, reporting that in 2015 Yahoo agreed to scan all its users' incoming emails on behalf of a U.S. …
Avatarbryan taylorAvatarAvatarMarissa Mayer Is Being Scapegoated for Yahoo’s Cyber Scandalsverified_publisherFortune - Jeffrey SonnenfeldJust as the Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was triumphantly navigating the firm into the later stages of its promising deal with Verizon, a series of …