October 4, 2016 Yahoo built email spying software for intelligence agencies, report says Last year, Internet giant Yahoo built software to spy on incoming emails of hundreds of millions of accounts for U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Reuters.
September 23, 2016 Yahoo confirms 500 million accounts compromised in huge data breach Yahoo has confirmed that hackers stole information from at least 500 million user accounts in what it describes as a “state-sponsored” attack.
September 22, 2016 Yahoo to confirm hackers stole passwords for 200M accounts all the way back in 2012, report says Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted passwords, a report says.
September 12, 2016 Flickr data reveals $1.8 billion value of Vermont's conservation areas, study says Scientists have tapped the power of Flickr to find out more about visits to conservation land in Vermont, and have even been able to put a price tag on all those visits.
April 6, 2016 Katie Couric joins Yahoo as global anchor, to host interview series Katie Couric is shifting focus to even smaller screens: Yahoo officially announced her hire as “global anchor,” making the Internet the primary platform for the talkshow hostess and journalist after 34 years on TV.
December 20, 2015 NSA secretly tapped Google, Yahoo data centers worldwide, new report claims Massive cloud networks from companies like Google and Yahoo cache and serve up much of the data on the Internet -- and the NSA has secretly tapped into the unencrypted links behind those company’s enormous servers, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
November 5, 2015 Even Yahoo employees don’t use Yahoo Mail Only 25 percent of Yahoo’s own employees use the company’s email offering-- even after company executives exhorted them all to switch off of Microsoft’s Outlook, according to a leaked memo.
November 5, 2015 Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with U.S. spy demands for data.
November 4, 2015 After Google, Bing and Yahoo now scrubbing links from search Bing and Yahoo search engines have started removing links to some websites following the EU's right-to-be-forgotten ruling back in May, a development that'll make it that little bit harder for Web users to discover particular sites. The post Right to be forgotten: After Google, Bing and Yahoo now scrubbing links from search appeared first on Digital Trends.
November 4, 2015 Yahoo says it faced $250,000-a-day fine for opposing NSA data demand Yahoo said Thursday that the US government threatened it with a $250,000-a-day fine if it refused to supply the National Security Agency (NSA) with user data for its controversial PRISM surveillance program.
