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Data of 200 million Yahoo users offered for sale

03

Aug

2016

Data of some 200 million Yahoo users has been offered for sale on the TheRealDeal dark web market by “peace_of_mind” (aka “Peace”). Even though Yahoo is yet to confirm whether the batch actually contains their users’ data, chances are good that it does, as Peace has been selling huge batches of user data stolen from […]

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Verizon’s Yahoo deal creates tracking powerhouse, privacy groups warn

27

Jul

2016

Verizon’s planned US$4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo is likely to create an international consumer tracking powerhouse, and that’s raising serious privacy concerns. Combined with other recent acquisitions, the Yahoo deal will allow Verizon to track consumers not only on the web, but also at their physical locations, said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center […]

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Yahoo open-sources Gryffin, a large scale web security scanning platform

28

Sep

2015

#yahoo has open-sourced Gryffin, a #scanning platform for #web applications. The developers’ goal was to create a security scanner that will be able to both discover as much of the application footprint as possible (crawl phase), and to test the various parts of it for specific #vulnerabilities (scan phase). What makes Gryffin special is the […]

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