Yahoo! pays $24,000 to Hacker for finding Security Vulnerabilities

Yahoo! has offered $24,000 to a security researcher for finding out and reporting three critical security vulnerabilities in its products including Yahoo! Stores and Yahoo!-hosted websites. While testing all the company's application, Mark Litchfield, a bug bounty hunter who often works with...

Yahoo Previews End To End Email Encryption

Following up on a promise it made during last summer’s Black Hat, Yahoo on Sunday said it’s on track to deliver end-to-end encryption for its email users this year. And to that end, it released the early source code for the Yahoo encryption browser extension to GitHub. Chief information security...

Yahoo Query Language Cross Site Scripting

/ Exploit Title: Yahoo Query Language Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Exploit Author: Peyman D. aka C4T Vendor Homepage : http://query.yahooapis.com/ Google Dork: none Date: 2015-03-08 Tested on: Windows 7 / Mozila Firefox Exploit Code: Discovered by Peyman D. aka C4T alert'Successfully...

56 Hackers Arrested in Cyber Crime 'Strike Week' Raids in UK

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency NCA has arrested 56 suspected hackers in a campaign against cybercrime called "strike week." Law-enforcement officials conducted, in total, 25 separate operations across England, Scotland and Wales, and those arrested were suspected in a wide range of...

Cisco Ironport AsyncOS Cross Site Scripting

Cisco Ironport AsyncOS Cross Site Scripting Vendor: Cisco Product webpage: http://www.cisco.com Affected versions: Cisco Ironport ESA - AsyncOS 8.0.1-023 Cisco Ironport WSA - AsyncOS 8.5.5-022 Cisco Ironport SMA - AsyncOS 8.4.0-126 Date: 24/02/2015 Credits: Glafkos Charalambous CVE: CVE-2013-6780...

MyBB < 1.6.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Google Releases Chrome Extension for End-To-End Email Encryption

Back in june this year, Google announced an alpha Google Chrome extension called "End-to-End" for sending and receiving emails securely, in wake of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations about the global surveillance conducted by the government law-enforcements. Finally, the company h...

Google Releases End-To-End Chrome Extension to Open Source

Google yesterday announced that it has released the source code for its End-to-End extension for Chrome to open source via GitHub. End-to-End enables Gmail users to encrypt, sign and verify email messages within the Chrome browser, using OpenPGP. “We’ve always believed strongly that End-To-End mu...

Yahoo security team: a vulnerability 9 0 days without repair, open to the public details-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Yahoo security team start to use with Google Project Zero, as the vulnerability disclosure policy--in the vulnerability information to notify the affected vendor of 9 0 days, the external disclosure of vulnerability details. The black bar safety net science: on the Google Project Zero Google...

Lax Crossdomain Policy Puts Yahoo Mail At Risk

Yahoo has made strides in battening down its security in the last 12 months, most publicly with its decision to enable end-to-end encryption for its email service, turn on SSL by default, and encrypt links between its data centers. There are still some darkened corners of its infrastructure,...

Yahoo Plans to Disclose All New Bugs It Finds Within 90 Days

Yahoo officials say that the company will disclose any new vulnerabilities that the company’s security team finds within 90 days of discovery. The new policy is the same one used by Google’s Project Zero, a team of researchers that looks for vulnerabilities in a variety of commonly used software...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2014:1581-1)

This MozillaFirefox update fixes several security and non security issues. Changes in MozillaFirefox : - update to Firefox 34.0.5 bnc908009 - Default search engine changed to Yahoo! for North America - Default search engine changed to Yandex for Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian locales - Improved...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2014:1397-1)

Update to version 2.10.10 : + General : - Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pidgin-2.10.10-1.fc20

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: pidgin-2.10.10-2.fc21

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Facebook Yahoo Require-Recipient-Valid-Since SMTP Extension

Yahoo’s decision in June 2013 to reset accounts that had been dormant for 12 months and make them available to other users raised a number of security and privacy red flags. It was feared that the potential for identity theft would grow given that if an old Yahoo account was linked to another...

Malicious Ads on Yahoo, AOL, Trigger CryptoWall Infections

Attackers have been leveraging the FlashPack Exploit Kit to peddle the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware on unsuspecting visitors to sites such as Yahoo, The Atlantic and AOL. Researchers believe that for about a month the malvertising campaign hit up to 3 million visitors and netted the attackers $25,00...

Yahoo in China suffered a SSL man in the middle attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Latest update: Off 1 0 on 2 0 PM 1 6: 4 to 6 points, attacks still continue......... 2 0 1 4 years 1 0 month 2 0 Day 1 4:3 0, Yahoo in mainland China once again under SSL man in the middle attacks, the domestic three operators to access all there is a problem, and Hong Kong, the United States,...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in 'Yahoo! Contributors Network'

Yahoo! Contributors Network contributor.yahoo.com, the network of authors that generated the contents such as photographs, videos, articles and their knowledge to more than 600 million monthly visitors, was vulnerable to a Time based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability. Behrouz Sadeghipour, a...

Yahoo Confirms Infected Servers Unrelated to Shellshock

Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos refuted claims made by a Louisiana security company that a number of Yahoo servers had been compromised by Romanian hackers using Shellshock exploits against the vulnerability in Bash. Stamos said three Yahoo Sports API servers were infected with malware by hackers looking...