Yahoo steps against Hackers

Yahoo steps in to try and stop foreign Hackers

Yahoo steps in to warn its users against foreign hackers; Yahoo has become another big tech company which has decided to warn its users if their account is or has been a target of foreign hacker. Google started giving out such warnings in 2012 followed by Facebook and Twitter.
Yahoo said in its statement that it will send users notifications if, “We strongly suspect that you may have been a target of an attack, and want to encourage you to take steps to secure your online presence.”

Hackers from countries such as China and Russia can not crack corporate or government agency networks often go for employees’ or relatives’ personal accounts which they can use to send email with malware to the real target. Several studies have shown a very bright chance that same password is being used by most of the people across all social and work networks and log on to work network from home are easy targets for the hackers.
The incidents like Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Office of Personnel Management are part of such attacks by the hackers from North Korea and China.

 

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Tom Kellermann, chief cyber security officer at the Tokyo-based security company Trend Micro said that the hackers are not looking for the Christmas photos from the accounts but are targeting people to fulfill specific objectives such as gaining access to Government or Corporate network.
Kellerman said,” If you are a Fortune 1,000 corporate official, C-level, or a senior executive in the U.S. government, or you are within one degree of separation from them — as in, you are a spouse of them, a child of them or a deputy of them — you will and have been targeted already.”
Al Pascual, director of fraud and security at Javelin Strategy & Research said that,” Consumers in general are not at risk.
You have to be in a specific role for something like this to be likely to occur to you.”
According to him, the industries which are vulnerable to such attacks include financial services, critical infrastructure, defense and politics.
If you get such notification from any social network or email service provider, the first thing to do is to notify your employer.

This denial of the risks, leaves everyone vulnerable to hackers attack, and yahoo will remain to be an amazing target for hackers all across the world, untill yahoo steps up their game and admits to some security flaws

 



 

 

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