Google Changes SafeSearch Option for Administrators

Google is removing a feature that allowed administrator to require their users to employ a search option that removes explicit content from search results. The decision is tied to the fact that the option required the use of an unsecured connection to Google, something that the company said allow...

September 2014 Yahoo Transparency Report

There was less clamor from governments and law enforcement around the world for data collected and stored by Yahoo, but nonetheless, the technology giant still fielded more than 18,000 data requests over the first six months of the year. Yahoo yesterday released its third Transparency Report, and...

Yahoo! Japan Box for Android issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview Yahoo! Japan Box for Android provided by Yahoo Japan Corporation contains an issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yahoo Japan Corporation reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC to notify users of this issue through JVN. JPCERT/CC coordinated with Yahoo Japan...

JVN#48270605: Yahoo! Japan Box for Android issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates

Yahoo! Japan Box for Android provided by Yahoo Japan Corporation contains an issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates. Impact A man-in-the-middle attack may allow an attacker to eavesdrop on an encrypted communication. Solution Update the Software Update to the latest version...

Yahoo emergency fixes can lead to remote command execution SQL injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Yahoo emergency fixes can lead to remote command executionSQL injectionvulnerability ! Recently, due to the presence of serious SQL vulnerabilities, Yahoo's website had been penetrated by the big impact note: the site is not yahoo main station, but is affiliated with yahoo a India ideas collectio...

Yahoo Quickly Fixes SQL Injection Vulnerability Escalated to Remote Code Execution

Yahoo! was recently impacted by a critical web application vulnerabilities which left website's database and server vulnerable to hackers. A cyber security expert and penetration tester, Ebrahim Hegazy a.k.a Zigoo from Egypt, has found a serious SQL injection vulnerability in Yahoo's website that...

YAHOO! NOTEPAD Cloud Service Detection

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YAHOO! MAIL Cloud Service Detection

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Documents in Long-Running Yahoo FISC Challenge Case Published

During a long-running secret dispute between Yahoo and government officials over the constitutionality of orders from the federal government to turn over data belonging to Yahoo users, the company was facing fines of $250,000 for refusing to comply with the order. The revelation is contained in a...

NSA threatened Yahoo with $250,000 Daily Fine For Opposing Surveillance Request

Yahoo! has broke its silence and explained why it handed over its users’ data to United States federal officials, thereby promising to expose those court documents which ordered the snooping. The US government threatened Internet giant with a $250,000 fine per day several years ago if it failed t...

CVE-2014-5881

The Yahoo! Japan Box aka jp.co.yahoo.android.ybox application 1.5.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

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The Yahoo! Japan Box aka jp.co.yahoo.android.ybox application 1.5.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5881

The Yahoo! Japan Box aka jp.co.yahoo.android.ybox application 1.5.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5881

The CVE-2014-5881 issue affects Yahoo! Japan Box for Android (jp.co.yahoo.android.ybox) where the app fails to verify SSL server certificates in versions up to 1.5.4 (and earlier), enabling man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt or spoof traffic. Root cause: improper SSL certificate verification ...

Facebook Says 95 Percent of Notification Email Encrypted

All that’s missing from the organic encrypt the web movement seems to be a hashtag. Otherwise, no one can accuse major web providers of slacking as leading players such as Microsoft and Yahoo, prompted by the Snowden leaks, have made noteworthy leaps in the last 15 months to encrypt everything fr...

Podcast: Black Hat News Wrap, Day Two

Dennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news from day two of Black Hat, including a CryptoLocker working group, a medical device security and privacy roundtable and overview of the various security and privacy improvements at Yahoo over the last year. Image via Black Hat USA 2014...

End-to-End Encryption for Yahoo Mail Coming Next Year

Today at Black Hat 2014 hacking conference, Yahoo! Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos announced that the company will start giving its consumers the option of end-to-end encryption in its Mail service by next year. Google showed off a PGP-based encryption plugin for Gmail back in June...

Yahoo to Release End-to-End Encryption for Email Users

LAS VEGAS–Yahoo plans to enable end-to-end encryption for all of its Mail users next year. The company is working with Google on the project and the encryption will be mostly transparent for users, making it as simple as possible to use. Alex Stamos, CISO at Yahoo, said that the project has been ...

Flickr Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability Patched

Yahoo-owned Flickr, one of the biggest online photo management and sharing website in the world was recently impacted by a web application vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to modify users’ profile image. Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing website with more than 87 million...

IcoScript RAT Malware Communicates Via Yahoo! Mail

A new remote administration Trojan RAT receives command and control instructions through Yahoo Mail, and could be easily modified to communicate with its authors through Gmail or other popular webmail providers. This new RAT’s significance stems primarily from its ability to elude the notice of...