Verizon wants $1 Billion Discount on Yahoo Acquisition Deal after Recent Scandals

It seems like it is not all over for Yahoo yet. Another day, another bad news for Yahoo! Verizon, which has agreed to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 Billion, is now asking for a $1 Billion discount, according to recent reports. The request comes after Verizon Communications learned about the recent...

Yahoo Slams Email Surveillance Story: Experts Demand Details

Bombshell revelations that Yahoo conducted mass email surveillance is raising hackles among legal, civil liberties and security experts that demand Yahoo and the U.S. government come clean. Meanwhile Yahoo challenged the accuracy of Tuesday’s report by Reuters. “The article is misleading. We...

Yahoo Built a Secret Tool to Scan Your Email Content for US Spy Agency

Users are still dealing with the Yahoo's massive data breach that exposed over 1 Billion Yahoo accounts and there’s another shocking news about the company that, I bet, will blow your mind. Yahoo might have provided your personal data to United States intelligence agency when required. Yahoo...

Uh oh, Yahoo! Data Breach May Have Hit Over 1 Billion Users

The massive data breach that Yahoo! confirmed to the world last week is claimed by the company to have been carried out by a "state-sponsored actor" in 2014, which exposed the accounts of at least 500 Million Yahoo users. But, now it seems that Yahoo has downplayed a mega data breach and trying t...

On the Yahoo Breach, WhatsApp-Facebook, and Zerodium's $1.5M Bounty

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember302016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Yahoo Challenged on Claims Breach Was State-Sponsored Attack

As challenges mount against Yahoo’s attribution of a massive 2014 data breach to state-sponsored hackers, CISO Bob Lord yesterday confirmed that a cache of 200 million Yahoo accounts marketed this summer in an underground forum is unrelated to the breach. Speaking at the Structure Security...

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...

Questions Mount Around Yahoo Breach

As Yahoo continues to investigate the biggest data breach in history, pressure is mounting on the company to admit when it knew about the attack, whether there was a delay in reporting it, and also about how it implements cryptography to secure data it’s responsible for. Security company Venafi...

On the Yahoo Breach, the Security of IoT Forum

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the massive Yahoo breach, this week’s Security of Things Forum, Mamba ransomware, and the privacy implications of Google Allo. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember232016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by 'State Sponsored' Hackers

500 million accounts — that's half a Billion users! That's how many Yahoo accounts were compromised in a massive data breach dating back to 2014 by what was believed to be a "state sponsored" hacking group. Over a month ago, a hacker was found to be selling login information related to 200 millio...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

Yahoo Reportedly to Confirm Breach of Hundreds of Millions of Credentials

Yahoo is expected to confirm a data breach that exposed hundreds of millions of credentials dating back four years. A report published today by Recode intimates that the total number of exposed credentials will be higher than the 200 million initially reported in early August. A request for comme...

ads.yahoo.com Open Redirect vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://ads.yahoo.com/pixel?id=2365328=2=https://www.openbugbounty.org Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| Open Redirect Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website...

Yahoo Investigates 200 Million Alleged Accounts For Sale On Dark Web

Yahoo says it is investigating reports of 200 million user credentials advertised for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker that goes by the handle “peaceofmind”. The Yahoo credentials, according to the site listing the database for sale, includes usernames, passwords hashed using the MD5 algorithm,...

Hacker Selling 200 Million Yahoo Accounts On Dark Web

Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In the past few months, over 1 Billion account credentials from popular social network sites, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace and VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, the same hacker who was responsible for selling da...

Yahoo Ordered to Explain Data Gathering Procedures in Deleted Email Case

Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were presumed deleted. Yahoo’s policy guide claims it cannot recover emails from a user’s account that have been deleted but defense lawyers for a convicted U.K. drug trafficke...

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...

The vulnerability of the Pidgin instant messaging system allows a remote attacker to trigger a service denial.

The Pidgin software contains a vulnerability in its component designed to work on the Yahoo! protocol. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a service failure by creating a P2P message with a length exceeding the maximum allowable buffer size...

Blat 3.2.14 Denial Of Service

Hi Hackers, Greetings from Vishnu @dh4wk 1. Vulnerable Product Version: Blat v3.2.14 Link: blat.net 2. Vulnerability Information Impact: Attacker may gain administrative access / can perform a DOS Remotely Exploitable: No Locally Exploitable: May be possible 3. Product Details An open source...

Yahoo Weather - Customized SSL, Exported ContentProvider, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Yahoo Weather published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...