Tag: yahoo
Hackers exploit Flash vulnerability in Yahoo ads
The New York Times reported on hackers exploiting Flash vulnerability in Yahoo ads. For seven days, hackers used Yahoo’s ad network to send malicious bits of code to computers that visit Yahoo’s collection of heavily trafficked websites, the company said on Monday. The attack, which started on July 28, was the latest in a string…
CEOs of Facebook, Google and Yahoo to skip Obama’s cybersecurity summit
Bloomberg reported on three of tech’s top CEOs planning to skip President Obama’s cybersecurity summit. Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt all were invited but won’t attend the public conference at Stanford University, according to the companies. Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook…
Yahoo’s decline
John Gruber wrote a very good piece on Yahoo’s decline. I would argue that Yahoo lost its way early. Yahoo was an amazing, awesome resource when it first appeared, as a directory to cool websites. Arguably, the directory to cool websites. It was hard to find the good stuff on the early web, and Yahoo…
Yahoo Finance: Apple Pay sides with credit card industry over consumer interests
Aaron Pressman wrote on Yahoo Finance about Apple Pay siding with the credit card industry over consumer interests. Apple has regularly delighted its customers with cool products on its way to becoming the most valuable company in the United States. But it hasn’t always stood up for its customers’ best economic interests. Let’s be clear…
Mailbox app now supports iCloud and Yahoo Mail
The good news is that the popular email app Mailbox now supports iCloud and Yahoo Mail, so the app isn’t restricted to Gmail users any longer. There isn’t any indication that support for traditional IMAP email clients is arriving anytime soon, though. Mailbox: now for iCloud and Yahoo Mail Today we’re thrilled to announce we’ve…
Only 25% of Yahoo staff are willing to dogfood Yahoo Mail
When you’re a technology company, using your own product (a.k.a. eating your own dogfood) is more or less essential. Perhaps it’s because Yahoo is still transitioning to the Marissa Mayer era, but if Yahoo Mail is going to be a competitive product again, the Yahoo employees had better start picking it up. Clinging to Outlook,…
Yahoo to join Google in encrypting traffic between data centers
Google has already moved to get this in place, so it’s not surprising that Yahoo is following suit. The good news is that Microsoft seems to have plans to encrypt traffic between its data centers too. The race for privacy is on. Yahoo Will Follow Google In Encrypting Data Center Traffic, Customer Data Flow By…