Re: How to secure my yahoo account

["J. Yoon" <supercool9000 () hotmail com>]

Just change your password to something else, but if you want more security 
go with something that allows encryption such as PGP

Anyway, does anyone know if there's any recent security holes in yahoo-mail?
I'm a bit curious now since no one i know seems to recommend anyone to use 
yahoo anymore.

As for me, I use Yahoo sometimes because of it's convenience and less junk 
mail.

1) Yahoo mail freezes your account after several bad password entry 
attempts. It's very difficult to run any type of bruteforce passwd cracker 
with a yahoo account (or for any other webmail for that matter)
2) You can turn off hidden HTTP links so that junk mails can't track you 
with port80 type links.
3) During Sign-on, u can click "secure" so that you can login  securely...
(although it seems like yahoo's switching between secure and insecure 
servers at times. not sure if they still do)
4) they give you decent storage amount... about 4megs although it used to be 
6

j


> From: "Brecrost Jones" <brecrost () hotmail com>
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: How to secure my yahoo account
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:53:13 -0700
>
> > How can you know if your yahoo account password has been cracked in case 
> > the cracker doesn't change it or manipulate any other data relevant to 
> > your account(for instance after reading your mails marks them as 
> > unread,etc)?
>
> My suggestion would be to avoid using a Yahoo account for anything that 
> requires security.
>
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