Goodbye! Yahoo to rename itself 'Altaba' after Verizon Deal

It's time to say goodbye to Yahoo! While Yahoo's core internet business was being sold to Verizon for $4.8 Billion, the remaining portions of the company left behind is renaming itself to Altaba Inc, which marks the sad ending of one of the most familiar brand names on the internet. In a public...

Congressional Leaders Demand Answers on Yahoo Breach

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, along with a number of his Democratic congressional colleagues, has demanded answers from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer about what is now the biggest data breach in history. Leahy called the two years between the intrusion of Yahoo’s network and the discovery and disclosu...

Verizon Set to Buy Yahoo for $5 Billion — Here's Why a Telecom is so Interested!

Finally, Someone has come forward to buy Yahoo! Guess Who? The telecommunication giant Verizon. Yes, Verizon Communications Inc. is reportedly closing in on a deal to acquire Yahoo’s core business for about $5 Billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Since the agreement between the companie...

Yahoo to Give Users Option for SSL on All Web Properties

Following months of criticism from security experts and privacy advocates for not deploying SSL across its Web offerings, Yahoo on Monday announced that it will be giving users the option to encrypt all of the data they exchange with the company by the end of the first quarter next year. The chan...

Yahoo Turns on SSL by Default for Email Users

Yahoo, one of the last email holdouts to implement SSL by default, announced it will do so in January. The company has been criticized as one of the few remaining giant Internet companies for its delay in turning on encryption by default for its web-based email users. It will now do so on Jan. 8,...

Yahoo Makes SSL Option Available For Mail Users

Following a trail cut several years ago by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has now given users of its webmail service the option of using an SSL connection for their sessions. The HTTPS option is not enabled by default, but users can turn it on with a couple of clicks. Yahoo has been slow to make the...