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Fake Yahoo Greetings Malware Campaign Circulating

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2008-04-16 15:21:03 by HASH0x8c5ff78 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Yahoo Greetings malware campaign by spamming the cybersquatted domains and enticing the user into updating their flash player with a copy of Backdoor.Agent.AJU Upon visiting www4.yahoo.american-greeting.com.tag38.com/ecards/view.pd.htm it redirects to www3.yahoo.americangreetings.com.id759.com/ecards/view.pd.htm id759.com is currently...
 
Tags: yahoo, fake yahoo, malware, malicious, malicious backdoor trojan, backdoor, malware campaign, net, active malware campaigns
 
 
 
 
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Spam Campaign Abusing Yahoo's Services

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2008-09-17 09:25:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Yahoo.com trusts Yahoo.com, consequently, a spam campaign that using bogus Yahoo.com email accounts, and spamming only Yahoo users with links to Yahoo's search engine using queries leading to the exact spammer's URLs, is almost 100% sure to make it through spam filters. That seems to be case with this spam campaign perfectly fitting into the...
 
Tags: spam, yahoo, spam campaign perfectly, spam campaign, yahoo users, spam systems, spam domains, yahoo emails, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Yahoo! Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Fidelity Investments Victims Persons participating in the Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan Number Affected Unknown Types of Data First name, last name, Social Security number and Yahoo! employee ID number Breach Description On November 12th, 2007 Fidelity Investments inadvertently...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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What would you do with Ballmer's letter if you were a Yahoo shareholder

2008-05-03 23:24:54 by HASH0x8b6f148 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Yahoo. I had a look at the letter Steve Ballmer sent to Jerry Yang officially withdrawing the offer and offering his reasons why. Must say that it is rare that a document like this is made public. I must also say that if I were a Yahoo shareholder, it would be a key piece of evidence when I sued Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo board and...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo shareholder, yang, sued jerry yang, microsoft, ballmer, force microsoft, jerry yang, microsoft evidently
 
 
 
 
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Sarah Palins Yahoo Mailbox Compromised

2008-09-17 15:57:33 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...Yahoo email hack 2008 Circa midnight Tuesday the 16th of September (EST) Wikileaks sources loosely affiliated with the activist group anonymous gained access to U.S. Republican Party Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palins Yahoo email account gov.palin@yahoo.com . Governor Palin has come under criticism for using private email accounts to...
 
Tags: wikileaks, palins, wikileaks sources loosely, information publicly, palins inbox, circa midnight tuesday, yahoo account, account, information
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo Banner Ads Infecting Visitors With Malware

2008-04-29 19:30:24 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Over the past few days, Yahoo has been exposing visitors to fraudware banner ads and also ads that try to trick them into installing malware. The ads are displayed across numerous web portal sections, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Astrology
 
Tags: yahoo, ads, yahoo mail, fraudware banner ads, yahoo astrology, malware, visitors, trick, days
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo Mail vulnerability discovered, fixed, company says

2008-06-25 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Yahoo today said it has fixed a vulnerability discovered in Yahoo Mail that would have allowed an attacker to gain control of the victim's Yahoo Identity. Security vendor Cenzic discovered the flaw last month and reported it to Yahoo, which fixed it on June 13, according to the company
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo mail, yahoo identity, fixed, security vendor cenzic, gain control, vulnerability, company, month
 
 
 
 
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Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA Broken

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2008-07-03 08:36:21 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Yahoo, Hotmail and the most popular Russian email providers in the thousands. Once the inventory of registered accounts drops due to someone's purchase, it continues registering one to two email accounts per second Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHA broken by spammers Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmails CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for...
 
Tags: captcha, hotmails captcha, captcha authentication, bogus accounts, accounts, text based captcha, accounts drops due, do-it-yourself captcha, yahoo
 
 
 
 
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The Feds Fight Google/Yahoo Alliance

2008-09-09 20:17:03 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Yahoo and the big Goog looking to team up, the Department of Justice is planning some moves of its own to make sure that the ad market isnt totally dominated by the two search engine giants but is it really the Feds behind the Anti-trust suit, or is it Microsoft weilding the power of its own monopoly money While advertisers have expressed...
 
Tags: yahoo, google, yahoo sites, power, acquire yahoo outright, potential market power, market, google employee, googles dominance