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Yahoo! Mail service vulnerable to hacking
Ehud Kenan
Published: 12.08.06, 19:44
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1. at school of internet
schulz ,   bad germany   (08.13.06)
at working, at businnes its may be, than change your password daily! Have to 8 days 8 passwords! But at home? I could, I must, I would change every day, every week, every month, at every time my passwords? forget! At first I am was angry, when I was going unto street and peoples ... came in my face with mail-interests! But now I am thinking: forget it! Yes, I am knowing: I can change my passwords at every time at every minut, at every day! But why? Hackers are crazy, but forget! I am not at work! I am at home! And I will not buy every day, every week, every month over, over, next, next software against hackers! They are sinners and God will justice them!
2. Yahoo Email
Tracey ,   DFW USA   (08.13.06)
Having been a long term user of Yahoo email, I've lost numerous accounts to hackers who gained control over my account by using software the breaks in. The worst aspect of this is that Yahoo couldn't care less. Talking to their help desk, you get pawned off to sending email to a certain dept. that rarely responds and when they do, its a form letter. Over the past few years, Yahoo has become the opposite of a user friendly company. Yahoo sucks and sucks bad now. Just my opinion after having used them for years.
3. at school at internet www ff
schulz ,   bad germany   (08.13.06)
you can take every number more passwords about over 8 picture 48 and than you can mix them, between accounts, between days, but please take not password-manager! Every program can be one enemy or an army by enemies! Please change passwords at your own hands! And be intelligenter than all your teachers!
4. If you will be very first class, very closed:
schulz ,   bad germany   (08.13.06)
If you will take an super-service for your own person, than make passwords how TAN, but you must puzzle them numbers and signs, at work one day or one meeting! And than forget it, take for next day or to next meeting another, one new password! Than finished: You are victor! victoria!
5. Hacking Yahoo Accounts
squawcheng ,   Denver, CO U.S.A.   (08.13.06)
As if Yahoo cares! Anyone can already lock out someone else's Yahoo email account by purposely trying to log into that account twenty to thirty times in a row, using the right name but the wrong password. That's why it's free, folks. Because the zombies that run it don't give a hoot.
6. yahoo sucks
(08.13.06)
i got my password stolen, with no help from Yahoo, of course. all my mail, gone.
7. Schulz
sean ,   boston ma   (08.14.06)
this is the coolest talkback post I have ever read. I keep reading them over and over.
8. Horrible Yahoo Mail
brok ,   Valpo, USA   (08.14.06)
Yahoo has the worst account help imaginable. I had an account with them for over 10 years and paid for the larger mailbox. Someone got into my account months ago and screwed it up. I couldn't access it no matter what I tried. Contacted Yahoo and they said "too bad", but someone has changed your password and if you don't know it, you can't get in it. Listen up and learn a lesson here folks, if you have Yahoo mail, cancel it or drop it immediately. After a week of the most frustrating emails imaginable, they simply stopped replying to me. I lost all of my business contacts because of them.
9. Good to know!
Kathleen ,   San Jose, CA, uSA   (08.14.06)
This is very good info. to know...Too bad nothing is safe or sacred anymore!!
10. Yahoo! Mail service vulnerable to hacking
Bill Brenson ,   Goshen, IN   (08.14.06)
"Alternatively, the hacker can exploit the vulnerability for performing phishing and by sending different malicious code, he can direct the user to enter his password in a site resembling Yahoo." That can be done for any website requiring a username and/or password. Ebay sees these every day. This article leads everyone to believe that this particular type of email is Yahoo only.
11. Source of the problem
Mike ,   Washington, DC, USA   (08.14.06)
Yahoo! should be able to seek damaged from Microsoft, for being the source of problems like this in Internet Explorer. Yes, the problem could have been avoided by more thorough design, but it's Internet Explorer that promotes these security problems on the Internet.
12. My Yahoo acct was hacked 3 years ago
Beaner ,   Boston US   (08.14.06)
This 'ain't nothing new ,,,, my Yahoo account was hacked 3 years ago... mail was sent; my profile was changed, -- and more. (BTW, I had a 12 alpha/num password) I immediately sent a message to Yahoo support. NOTHING! Not a peep -- even after followups.
13. Yahoo is okay
Burton Sullivan ,   Atlantic City, NJ US   (08.14.06)
Never, ever click on Google for a search or a Google ad. They 'll store your info
14. re:horrible yahoo mail
alex ,   newport, ri   (08.14.06)
dont put all your eggs in one basket. if u think there is a provider out there that is hacker proof, you're wrong. its your own ignorance that lost those business contacts.
15. DON'T USE INTERNET EXPLORER!
Tom ,   NY, NY   (08.14.06)
Using another browser eliminates more than ninety percent of problems like this.
16. Sean - can ypu please provide a translation from Schulz?
(08.14.06)
I'm in the dark here, but it sounds like it's important.
17. Yahoo is Great
Ralph ,   Fahaheel Kuwait   (08.14.06)
I have used several e mail providers and I think Yahoo is great. Its free and it goes with me wherever I go. I have several accounts for different things and friends, no problems after about 5 years. I think Yahoo is a great value!
18. yahoo having a vulnerability ?
John Haze ,   Charlottesville va   (08.14.06)
now way just look at the bots hawking porn and hacks in thier chatrooms
19. Beaner: my yahoo account was hacked 3 years ago
Mike Crowson ,   London, England   (08.14.06)
I'm glad I'm not the only one to have this problem (sorry you had a problem but I'm glad I'm not alone) Somebody hacked into my account and made several postings in my name, causing no end of problems. Yahoo did evetually respond, though not before I('d forwarded them a lot of unwanted emails arising from the postings.
20. Yahoo Mail Accounts
Sunflowers ,   UK   (08.14.06)
I've got several email accounts, including Yahoo, GMail and Hotmail. I've noticed some regular newsletters and notifications I used to get in my Yahoo account have suddenly been transferred to my Hotmail account and I didn't authorise it. I don't use Internet Explorer, I use Firefox and I'm thinking of adding Opera to my collection of browsers.
21. Easy to avoid
Harry Kresge ,   Dayton, OH - USA   (08.14.06)
Don't publicize your email address on such sinkholes as Multiply, Ringo, and My Space. Stay away from sexually oriented sites. Dont open emails from anyone you don't know.
22. OPERA
RISK ,   DC, USA   (08.14.06)
Opera is unstable...stick with Firefox
23. yahoo's sucky service
Megan ,   Sharpsburg,MD   (08.14.06)
Someone has been using my e-mail address since March to send spam to others.I discovered this when an e-mail was returned to me as undeliverable and I had not sent it to begin with.Then the next day I got spammed and the return address was my own.The unhelpful,couldn't care less people at yahoo told me they had never heard of this happening,and the woman I was speaking with said she couldn't even file a report,I should get online and fill out a form-which I did-someone responded and told me it was no big deal-but still insisted they had never heard of this happening.Only due to my laziness am I still a yahoo customer(for 8 yrs.),I will now make the switch to another company and hope to watch yahoo's financial decline . Their service sucks and they don't even seem to care.
24. Internets
Vince ,   Los Angeles, USA   (08.14.06)
This just goes to show you: NEVER use the internet.
25. re: Horrible yahoo mail... Alex
brok ,   Valpo, IN   (08.14.06)
Had I known then what I know now I wouldn't have "put all my eggs in one basket" and I certainly wouldn't have picked Yahoo's basket. These internet companies with their "secret questions and passwords" is a joke. To tell me that I can't prove who I am simply because of a "question and answer" (that someone changed) is crap. Why not go by the credit card that had been paying them for 10 years? Is that not proof of who I am? Then after no help from them they had the nerve to charge my credit card the renewal fee the following month. What happened to my not being able to prove who I am??? They were satisfied enough with who I am to charge me $120.00 again. It took me a week, but business is just fine again. Thanks for your input.
26. Internet Explorer
brok ,   Valpo, IN   (08.14.06)
I've never used Internet Explorer for email. Never liked their set-up.
27. IE
DD ,   Colorado Springs USA   (08.14.06)
Tom is correct. Since I moved to Mozilla, I haven't had any problems! Lose IE and 99% of your problems are over!
28. Schulz
Margie in Tel Aviv ,   Israel   (08.14.06)
That sounds like good advice. Wish I could understand it. Can you English it a bit, please
29. To Talkback editors at Ynet
(08.14.06)
Are you sure Schulz from bad Germany isn't sending some kind of coded message? His posts sure look odd and might be worth checking out.
30. Yahoo Advice
Ralph ,   Fahaheel Kuwait   (08.14.06)
I'm sorry some of you got your Yahoo accounts hacked, you should ask yourself though if it was Yahoo or using an easy password to hack, like your birthday. I use letters upper and lower case, numbers and special characters in my password. If you can't remember it write it down. Also I use Firefox now, I'm tired of IE and all its patches and attacks. Good luck but give Yahoo a break! If you know of something much better tell us instead of just bashing Yahoo, because like I've said I think it's a great value.
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