Yahoo is now automatically encrypting connections to its Yahoo Mail service as promised in November last year. All connections to Yahoo Mail servers from clients across the globe will now be encrypted…
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Marissa Mayer announces Yahoo’s new ad platforms, digital magazines at CES 2014
Marissa Mayer took stage at CES and announced a suite of new advertising platforms along with new media sites and products ranging from improved Smart TV platform to image-heavy digital magazines. During…
Yahoo reportedly serving malicious advertisements
Users visiting yahoo.com are being reportedly served with malicious advertisements, which when clicked upon and were redirected to an exploit kit via HTTP redirect. Security firm FOX IT revealed yesterday that they came…
Tech behemoths urge President Obama to limit government surveillance
Technology giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, AOL and Yahoo have come together and issued an open letter to US President Barack Obama and the Congress to bring in reforms…
Court orders search engines to de-list, ISPs to block DPstream, Fifostream and Allostreaming
In what could be dubbed as the king of all DMCA takedown requests, Paris High Court has ordered Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to de-list all infringing URLs belonging to three video portals…
Marissa Mayer: Yahoo to extend encryption to all its products by 2014
Yahoo on Monday resolved to extend encryption to all its services and products by early 2014 amidst reports that government agencies specifically the NSA was intercepting server traffic between Google and Yahoo…
NSA secretly snooped on Yahoo, Google data centres claims new report
The National Security Agency (NSA) is secretly keeping an eye on Yahoo and Google’s data centers, claims Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The security agency’s project to intercept the communication and data…
Yahoo butters Bread
Yahoo with its acquisition of Bread has added one more company to its long list of acquisitions this year. Bread, an ad tech and a URL shortening service, allowed users / companies…
Yahoo ups bug bounty ante from $12.50 to $15,000 after policy review
Yahoo has quickly revamped its vulnerability reporting and handling mechanism after it was ridiculed for handing out $12.50 per XSS vulnerability just a couple of days back. Explaining its stand and on…
US Court rejects Google, Microsoft, Yahoo motion to disclose national security requests
US court has rejected the motion for declaratory judgment filed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn. Google and other companies asked for permission from the US Government and FBI to publish…
Yahoo pays measly $12.50 for single XSS flaw under its reward program
Security researchers have revealed that Yahoo pays out peltry $12.50 for each cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that is discovered on one of its domains, no matter how dangerous they can be if…