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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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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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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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Yahoo! Boosts Search Security with McAfee Partnership

2008-05-07 10:21:16 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Yahoo!, the search engine is announcing plans to make its services more secure by using McAfee technology. Red warning messages may soon start showing up next to questionable or dangerous site links in a yahoo search. Apparently, Google started this over a year ago in February 2007 Another interesting factoid from the original article Citing...
 
Tags: yahoo, americans online, online, survey online, people, people supposedly prefer, neighborhood crime, malware, crime
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo! Groups Are Used By Phishers To Send Personalized Scam Emails

2008-06-25 22:51:46 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A spam campaign that sends personalized phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups has recently been reported by TrendLabs researchers, Jake Soriano and Grace Ermitanyo (who provided detailed analysis about this attack). Phishers appear to have sent phishing emails through Yahoo! Groups via either the standard posting methods through Yahoo! Groups...
 
Tags: yahoo, emails, spam campaign, jake soriano, grace ermitanyo, trendlabs researchers, phishers, standard, recently
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo to support OpenID single sign-on

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3d234 in Network World on Security
 
People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different logon information people need to create, remember and enter online
 
Tags: logon information people, people, information, digital identity framework, openid, support, enter online, yahoo user, remember