kingofthehobos - Slashdot User

Comment Re:its more than just Yahoo! Desktop (Score 1) 3

by kingofthehobos on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @07:13AM (#25202853) Attached to: Yahoo! exposes user passwords

thats not good. I think a lot of iPhone users try and do mail checking over wireless up in Canada because of the bandwidth limits with rogers... Does this affect yahoo.ca accounts as well?

Submission + - Yahoo! exposes user passwords (uwaterloo.ca) 3

Submitted by kingofthehobos on Monday September 29, 2008 @11:00PM

kingofthehobos writes: In a move hearkening back to the days of telnet, Yahoo!'s newest addition to there mail system exposes the full usernames & passwords over the wire (or wireless) in plaintext. Both CNET news & Wired's Webmonkey are reporting on the story (although in true Wired fashion the individual is called a "hacker"). So, if you know anyone who might have installed Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop getting them to switch back to the web interface and change there password (until the issues are fixed) would be ++good.

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