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Yahoo! Mail service vulnerable to hacking
Ehud Kenan
Published: 12.08.06, 19:44
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31. Schultz is right! I think...?
Ahad ,   Rochester, ny   (08.14.06)
Schultz is very passionate about whatever it is that he is saying. I think his rant requires translation. When you can feel one's emotion through on-contexted english, than he needs a voice.. @h@d--creator of the anti-comma.
32. Yahoo E-mail
Uncle Nicholas ,   The Valley, CA   (08.15.06)
I find Yahoo e-mail to be the best in the world. I would use no other. It is especially good for sending my 1 MB TIF pictures straight from my camera...
33. Yahoo is behind the curve
kephas1616 ,   Washington, DC   (08.15.06)
Yahoo is the only major "free" email provider that doesn't give free POP3 access. Even hotmail, whose spam filters suck, gives you free POP3 access. For the money (free), gmail is definitely the way to go.
34. Every system is vulnerable
Jay ,   Milwaukee, WI, USA   (08.15.06)
No surprise. Any system is vulnerable. A guy in my class came up with a zero-day exploit to get administrator privileges on any Windows machine. Somebody else beat him in posting it. Hackers are always coming up with new exploits, so today's secure system may be next week's hack victim. The best you can do is take due diligence and make sure your machine is patched and firewalled to the best of your ability. There is, of course, no guard against stolen passwords.
35. BALONEY!
Michelle ,   Florida, USA   (08.21.06)
Please tell me that YAHOO is NOT saying they can't retrieve information about WHO gained access to an account! With today's technology, etc., certainly this can be done. Oh, perhaps because it's a "free" account..... I am so peeved right now - I have lost ALOT of info, as well, personal and businesswise. It's like losing your belongings in a fire. Gone. Forever. Someone hacked my password, and then changed my personal info so that I am completely out of control of my own account. Jobs, money-making emails, friends, etc. - LOST. I don't suppose any of this has happened to the people who are running the "customer service" aspect of Yahoo. The more postings I read, the more I just want to disassociate myself from Yahoo. No customer support or service. I keep getting "automated" messages back from them. I can pinpoint within a couple hours' time WHEN my hack occurred. They cannot tell me that they can't look into the hack - not when they can go in and get info off of hard drives that were put into TRASH and then deleted from trash, yet STILL be able to pull files, etc. up from the hard drive. The CAN find whom accessed an account at a certain point of time. If I were to be murdered tomorrow, I'm sure they'd be quick in getting any info off my computer/email stuff to see who had access to what. Maybe I should report myself dead. Thanks for letting me vent.
36. YAHOO MUST WAKE UP ASAP
SHYPERSON ,   AUSTRALIA   (08.28.06)
IM FEED UP WITH ALL THESE YAHOO HACKS YOU CAN FIND ON YAHOO DIRECTORY , AND ALSO YAHOO IS SUPPLYING ALL THESE PROGRAMS.SO IT SHOWS HOW MUCH YAHOO CARES ABOUT THERE EMAILS PEOPLE SIGN UP TO USE ... I HOPE YAHOO OR THE GOVERMENT CLOSES IT DOWN. MAYBE THEN THEY WILL GET OF THERE BUMS AND DO SOMETHING...
37. yahoo security
Cathy ,   Fresno,CA   (09.11.06)
I had my acct. hacked last year and Yahoo never responded. This year I completely lost my account, but interesting that Yahoo once again does not respond to my please for assistance...something!
38. switch to gmail better !!
Egypt   (01.20.07)
I have just lost my yahoo mail account and I dont have a clue why!! and the customer care never answer... I have switched to gmail. it is the best right now . i think... Dispite of everything , i am glad i finnaly switched...
39. i have lost my pssword
mohamed ibrahim ,   cairo,egypt   (04.29.07)
40. hello
john reeve ,   us   (08.17.08)
i want to hack
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