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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
The persistence of certain botnet masters cannot remain unnoticed even if you're used to going through over a dozen active malware campaigns per day, in this case it's their persistence that makes them worth assessing and profiling. The botnet which I assesed in February , the one that was crunching out phishing emails and using the infected...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
 
As you probably know Microsoft has officially withdrawn their offer for Yahoo.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...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo! Marketing Hit By Phishers, Phished Accounts Lead To Malvertising And Malware Distribution

2008-10-14 00:42:32 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Trend Micro researchers recently discovered a phishing attack that targets Yahoo! Search Marketing users. Yahoo! Search Marketing is an advertising service offered by Yahoo! to users who want their advertisements placed on Yahoo! pages. According to Web information company Alexa, Yahoo! is the Number 1 most popular Web site, thus explaining...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sarah Palins Yahoo Mailbox Compromised

2008-09-17 15:57:33 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
A group of individuals has compromised VP candidate Sarah Palins personal email and sent the information to Wikileaks which has posted the information publicly http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah Palin Yahoo email hack 2008 Circa midnight Tuesday the 16th of September (EST) Wikileaks sources loosely affiliated with the activist group anonymous...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
It's one thing to start efficiently registering thousands of email accounts at reputable email providers by automatically breaking their CAPTCHA authentication, and entirely another to build a business model on the top of it next to the opportunity to abuse if for your own malicious purposes. Which is exactly what we have here, an underground...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
 
A google employee once said, Googles going to take over the world, and everyones going to love it, or something to that effect. Now, with 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...
 
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
 
 
 
 
 
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McAfee, Yahoo team on Web security

2008-05-07 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
McAfee and Yahoo today announced a partnership on Web security in which Yahoo's search engine is making freely available to users the warnings about unwanted or malicious code on Web sites as determined through McAfee's security technology