Yahoo mail users be warned ??


	Yahoo mail users be warned ??

mrmoan

9-20-2009 3:25 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d3efb5e-b7ef-4da5-a7fe-1c2660effcf1/0AB81629-6B6A-4AB1-B3AA-1352DB5E5F9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html">Yahoo Mail users are being warned that a two-year-old hole in the service could be allowing <A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/hacking-hackers.html">hackers</A> to gain easy access to their accounts, according to new reports.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html"><P id="ynw-article-part2">Ryan Barnett, director of application security research at Breach Security, said the problem stems from a web application which automates the log-in procedure for the popular webmail service, according to a report in The Register.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html">However, this web app crucially fails to adhere to the same security checks normally followed by the usual log-in page, enabling "some sort of water tunnel that the bad guys are walking right through, hes reported as saying.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090919/ttc-yahoo-mail-users-warned-of-brute-for-6315470.html"><P><A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/hacking-hackers.html">Hackers</A> are therefore using the unsecure web app to carry out brute force attacks on user passwords; a process whereby they try all possible combinations of letter and numbers in order to crack the password, and gain entry to the account.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0AB81629-6B6A-4AB1-B3AA-1352DB5E5F9C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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