After hacking, Yahoo Mail users advised to reset passwords, heed security tips

New York: Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday. Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail, according to the research firm comScore. There are 273 million Yahoo mail accounts worldwide,

Yahoo resets passwords after email hack

Yahoo has been resetting email accounts that were targeted in a cyber-attack apparently aimed at collecting personal information from recently sent messages, the company has said. 

The cyber-attack was a coordinated effort by hackers who tried to log into many email accounts with stolen usernames and passwords, Yahoo said. However, the company did not mention how many accounts were affected.

Yahoo Mail targeted in hacking attempt

Yahoo says it has identified an attempted hack on customers' email accounts. It said the usernames and passwords for accounts were likely to have been collected from a database owned by a third party that had been compromised. It has reset passwords on all affected accounts and has implemented an extra verification step when users sign in. 

Yahoo says detected hacking attempt on email accounts

The Yahoo logo is shown at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California April 16, 2013. (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it had detected a "coordinated effort" to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts using malicious computer software. The company said on its official blog that it believed that the attackers were attempting to access the accounts using credentials that had been obtained from a breach of another company's user database.

Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users per hour

Around 2.5 million Yahoo users were infected with the malicious software after the hackers seized a few advertisements of the company and used those to attack the web surfers. As per the report of the cyber security firm Fox IT to the breach, some of the advertisements were viewed by the clients from the period of 30^th December to 2^nd January were malware infected. CNET also explains that the users who opened the pages with the ads were then redirected to those sites,

Yahoo Mail Accounts Hacked, Passwords Reset

An unspecified number of Yahoo Mail users have had their usernames and passwords compromised, the company announced late Thursday. The hack appears to have taken place via a compromised third party database, and Yahoo has taken the precaution of resetting the passwords of affected users.

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Moz 2014 Industry Survey Reveals Budgets Are Up & Median Marketing Salary Trumps SEO Pay

Marketing analytics provider Moz has released its latestindustry survey, polling more than 3,700 internet professionals on a number of marketing and search related topics. According to Moz’s survey results, not only are budgets on the rise, but the median marketing salary totaled $73,034, the fifth highest median salary by role.

Yahoo’s Q4 and FY Revenues Down But Earnings Beat

This afternoon, Yahoo reported a mixed quarter. The company had revenues of $1.26 billion in Q4 2013. That was a 6 percent drop from a year ago. For the full year, Yahoo earned roughly $4.7 billion, another 6 percent decrease compared to 2012. Yahoo earnings per share dramatically beat Wall Street estimates ($0.46 vs. $0.38). However, the contraction of Yahoo’s display

Yahoo Strikes Deal To Run Contextual AdSense Ads From Google

Yahoo has announced that it will be working with Google. No, not on search-triggered advertising, Bing is still Yahoo’s exclusive partner there; but, Google will non-exclusively provide contextual ads that will appear throughout Yahoo’s properties and certain co-branded sites. The ads will come through AdSense for Content, with mobile ads provided by AdMob.

Yahoo Resurrects Its Publisher Network In Partnership With Bing And Media.net

Under the stewardship of new CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo is launching a new contextual advertising network — similar to Google’s AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network it, This time, the company is partnering with Search Alliance ally Bing, and technology provider Media.net.The idea, apparently, is to bulk up the amount of contextual advertising inventory Yahoo and Bing can make available to advertisers.

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Yahoo Search Goes Secure, Taking Referrer Data , An Indicator Of Yahoo’s Popularity

By default, searches on Yahoo.com are now done through a secure server. That means more protection for searchers but less data for search marketers about how they are receiving traffic. Most visits from Yahoo done via search will appear as if someone came to a site directly. As a result, Yahoo’s apparent popularity as a traffic driving source will appear to plunge.

An Easy Way To Check What Referrer Data Google, Bing Or Yahoo Pass To Your Secure Site

Three major search engines migrating their default searches to secure search, over SSL/HTTPS, marketers and webmasters want to know what referrer and analytics data will be passed to them and what won’t. The majority of  Google is Secure search, Yahoo yesterday defaulted all searches to be conducted over SSL, and Bing is currently testing SSL search for those who opt in. As you see, the tool is on an HTTPS page, so referrer data can securely pass from a secure Google, Bing or Yahoo URL but do they?