18-Byte ImageMagick Hack Could Have Leaked Images From Yahoo Mail Server

After the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to view private Yahoo Mail images, Yahoo retired the image-processing library ImageMagick. ImageMagick is an open-source image processing library that lets users resize, scale, crop, watermarking and tweak images. The...

Flickr Vulnerability Worth $7K Bounty to Researcher

Yahoo has patched an account takeover vulnerability on its Flickr image-hosting service that earned an independent security researcher a $7,000 bounty. The issue was patched April 10, eight days after Michael Reizelman privately disclosed it through Yahoo’s HackerOne bounty program. Reizelman sai...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2017-457)

This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2017-2640: Out of bounds memory read in purplemarkupunescapeentity boo1028835. These non-security issues were fixed : + libpurple : - Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running...

Security update for pidgin (important)

This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-2640: Out of bounds memory read in purplemarkupunescapeentity boo1028835. These non-security issues were fixed: + libpurple: - Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running...

Cross-Site Scripting

Overview Affected versions of yui are vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the uploader.swf and io.swf utilities, via script injection in the url. Recommendation YUI has published their recommendation to fix this issue. Their recommendation is to: - Delete self-hosted copies of these files if yo...

FSB Officers, Criminal Hackers Indicted in Yahoo Breach

The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, it alleges are connected to a massive breach of Yahoo’s network and the theft of information associated with 500 million accounts. One of the men, Karim Baratov, 22, was arrested March 14 in Canada...

US Charges Two Russian Spies & Two Hackers For Hacking 500 Million Yahoo Accounts

The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014...

Hacker Selling Over 1 Million Decrypted Gmail and Yahoo Passwords On Dark Web

Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, according to the recent news, login credentials and other...

Yahoo Reveals 32 Million Accounts Were Hacked Using 'Cookie Forging Attack'

Yahoo has just revealed that around 32 million user accounts were accessed by hackers in the last two years using a sophisticated cookie forging attack without any password. These compromised accounts are in addition to the Yahoo accounts affected by the two massive data breaches that the company...

Yahoo Hacked Once Again! Quietly Warns Affected Users About New Attack

Has Yahoo rebuilt your trust again? If yes, then you need to think once again, as the company is warning its users of another hack. Last year, Yahoo admitted two of the largest data breaches on record. One of which that took place in 2013 disclosed personal details associated with more than 1...

yahoo.mobyfun.hexat.com IFRAME Injection vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://yahoo.mobyfun.hexat.com/?img=" XANY Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| IFRAME Injection Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website status:| No Coordinated...

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...

On IoT Botnets, Ransomware, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap 2016’s biggest news stories, including the proliferation of IoT botnets, the rise of ransomware, the FBI vs. Apple battle, Yahoo, and a rash of old password breaches. Download: Threatpost2016YearinReview.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

tw.screener.finance.yahoo.net XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://tw.screener.finance.yahoo.net/future/aa05?sid=111'="%3E%3Csvg onload=confirmOPENBUGBOUNTY%3E=1=1 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / No...

Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client

A database of one billion stolen Yahoo accounts has been sold to at least three different buyers for $300,000 each, and the group selling the data and behind the 2013 intrusion—the largest data breach on record—is a criminal operation, not a state-sponsored attack group as Yahoo claims. Andrew...

On Yahoo's One Billion Breach, a DDoS-For-Hire Crackdown and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches. Show notes: Yahoo Discloses Data From 1 Billion Accounts Stolen in 2013 Beta Firmware Updates Available fo...

1-Billion Yahoo Users' Database Reportedly Sold For $300,000 On Dark Web

Recently Yahoo disclosed a three-year-old massive data breach in its company that exposed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts, which is said to be the largest data breach of any company ever. The new development in Yahoo!'s 2013 data breach is that the hacker sold i...

Yahoo Discloses Data From 1 Billion Accounts Stolen in 2013

Yahoo today disclosed another mega breach of its systems, this one occurring in August 2013 and resulting in the loss of data associated with more than one billion user accounts. Today’s revelation comes less than three months after Yahoo admitted state-sponsored hackers walked off in 2014 with...

Yahoo Admits 1 Billion Accounts Compromised in Newly Discovered Data Breach

In what believe to be the largest data breach in history, Yahoo is reporting a massive data breach that disclosed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts in August 2013. …And it's separate from the one disclosed by Yahoo! in September, in which hackers compromised as ma...

Yahoo Mail – Stay Organized! - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Yahoo Mail – Stay Organized! published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...