[Chicago] Do not open Re: The

Jordan Bettis jordanb at hafd.org
Tue Nov 20 00:04:55 CET 2012


That's still Yahoo's fault, unless it's using a browser bug to get
access to the credentials.

On 11/19/2012 04:29 PM, Cezar Jenkins wrote:
> I think you misunderstand. The virus only cares about logging into Yahoo accounts. It gets the credentials off of the end user's machine.
> 
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Jordan Bettis <jordanb at hafd.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> If Yahoo is vulnerable to such a Trojan then they *have* been hacked to
>> the extent that client-side security has been compromised.
>>
>> On 11/19/2012 07:59 AM, Cezar Jenkins wrote:
>>> This hit another mailing list I'm on, non computer related. Took a while
>>> to get the admin to understand the difference between Yahoo being hacked
>>> and a virus/trojan that attacks Yahoo mail.
>>>
>>> He was close to closing the list to all Yahoo accounts.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Randall Baxley <rlbax777 at swbell.net
>>> <mailto:rlbax777 at swbell.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arg, I was phished
>>>>
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