You would have to be a yahoo to still be using Yahoo. And this time, that’s not just because Gmail is superior.
If you haven’t heard, Yahoo announced last week there was a massive security breach of its servers, resulting in hackers stealing email account information for over 500 million users. In other words, there’s over a 50 percent chance that your Yahoo account has been compromised. It’s sad to say, but Yahoo has goofed so badly that you probably have a better chance of your account information being leaked than you do of flipping tails on a coin.
While Yahoo’s hackers were only able to get their hands on encrypted versions of users’ passwords, that’s barely comforting, considering users continue to have passwords like ‘1234’, ‘password’ and ‘iloveyou’ for their accounts – passwords that can be easily brute-forced and guessed by auto-generated ‘rainbow lists,’ lists consisting of thousands of simple passwords.
While word of state-sponsored hacking hovers uncertainly in the Yahoo breach tale, it is becoming increasingly clear that no one can wash their hands of cybersecurity – and that includes UCLA’s administrators and students. For the full article click here
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