{"id":8438,"date":"2014-10-14T17:28:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:28:46","slug":"yahoo-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/yahoo-users-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Users Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been advising our readers to stop using Yahoo because of the continue hacking of accounts. We have seen our friends and family members who were using Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo Services have their accounts compromised. Plus, we have read other stories about Yahoo&#8217;s aging infrastructure, poor management, disregard for user privacy and have seen first hand hundreds compromised Yahoo email accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo doesn&#8217;t seem to take your privacy or security seriously. Yet they have the worst spam filters and censsorship of any of the major web mail services.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Gmail and Microsoft&#8217;s Outlook are far more secure than Yahoo &#8211; and we&#8217;ve been telling all of our readers this for several years. If you have a Yahoo account we strongly advise you to get a Gmail or Outlook.com account as soon as possible. We just don&#8217;t trust Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>However, if \u00a0you&#8217;re still not convinced, there&#8217;s yet another story surfacing about compromised servers at Yahoo. Please read the article below, written by our friends at Emsisoft:<\/p>\n<header>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Researcher claims Yahoo! servers have been compromised using Shellshock<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emsisoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1000px-Yahoo_logo.svg_.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9929 alignright img-large\" src=\"https:\/\/secure-assets.readability.com\/d06edad3e064b54087d32410970d97558fcaedae\/687474703a2f2f626c6f672e656d7369736f66742e636f6d2f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031342f31302f3130303070782d5961686f6f5f6c6f676f2e7376675f2d3330307836392e706e67\" alt=\"1000px-Yahoo!_logo.svg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early reports are indicating that at least two Yahoo! web servers have been hacked through use of the critical<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emsisoft.com\/2014\/09\/25\/critical-bash-bug-shellshock-might-be-as-big-as-heartbleed\/\">Shellshock Bash Bug.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! has yet to release an official statement on the matter, however an analysis of the issue has been published by independent security researcher Jonathan Hall. According to Hall, Romanian hackers have used Shellshock to compromise the Yahoo! web servers and explore the company\u2019s network. Hall writes that the attackers appear to be working towards accessing the Yahoo! Games servers, access which could potentially allow them to serve malware to millions of users. In addition to Yahoo!, the researcher also states that the hackers have compromised WinZip.com and Lycos.<\/p>\n<p>As an immediate precaution, Emsisoft recommends that all Yahoo! users change their password as soon as Yahoo! confirms that the breach has been closed \u2013 that is, of course, if Hall\u2019s findings are indeed true.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the researcher\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuresouth.us\/yahoo_hacked.html\">statement and technical analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a nice (malware-free) day!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emsisoft.com\/2014\/10\/06\/researcher-claims-yahoo-servers-have-been-compromised-using-shellshock\/?ref=ticker141014&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_content=blog&amp;utm_campaign=ticker141014\" target=\"_blank\">QUOTED SOURCE: EMSISOFT BLOG<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been advising our readers to stop using Yahoo because of the continue hacking of accounts. We have seen our friends and family members who were using Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo Services have their accounts compromised. Plus, we have read other stories about Yahoo&#8217;s aging infrastructure, poor management, disregard for user privacy and have seen first\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/yahoo-users-beware\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669,1426,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}