An examination of spam originating from the major free e-mail providers shows that like consumers, spammers prefer Google.In a three-week period from mid-June to this month, e-mail filtering firm Roaring Penguin said it saw an explosion of spam originating from Gmail, while Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail remained flat.The company attributes this meteoric rise in [...]

Embattled Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang accused Microsoft head Steve Ballmer of trying to destabilize the internet company Wednesday, as a sharp war of words intensified ahead of Yahoo’s decisive proxy shareholder vote on August 1.Yang’s comments in an interview with The Wall Street Journal came two days after Microsoft revealed that it would restart [...]

Microsoft set the stage for a full-blown battle to overthrow Yahoo’s board of directors yesterday when it declared it was interested in reopening talks to buy all or part of the internet company - but only if a new board was appointed first.The intervention, less than a month before Yahoo’s annual meeting, gives backing to [...]

A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software. That, Bill Gates has often said, is the vision on which he and Paul Allen founded their software company in 1975. There’s debate over when the mantra was first articulated–the earliest known instances go back only to the mid-1980s–but this much is undeniable: [...]

Several major investors said Friday they are not sure if they will support activist shareholder Carl Icahn’s proxy battle to oust Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and its board.Icahn is seeking to revive buyout talks between Yahoo and Microsoft. If his slate of nine board nominees are elected at Yahoo’s Aug. 1 annual meeting, they [...]

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail could leave instant messenger users open to attack.

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Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO) fixed a critical vulnerability in its Messenger desktop and Mail applications that could allow hackers to steal identities to gain access to users’ private information.In a worst case scenario, the flaw enabled hackers to hijack users’ sessions and infiltrate their private accounts, as well as overtake operations in Yahoo Mail, if it was [...]

Cenzic today published an advisory regarding a vulnerability discovered in Yahoo! Mail. This Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability allows attackers to steal Yahoo! identities and gain access to users’ se…
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Some Malawians in recent weeks have been panicking over messages they are receiving that some of their colleagues and relatives are stranded in Nigeria after losing their cash during workshops held in Lagos.Apparently, some people living in Malawi and have Yahoo! addresses have had their emails hacked into by some unscrupulous Nigerians operating from a [...]

Saying they are concerned with competition and privacy, some congressmen said they plan to hold hearings on the Google-Yahoo search advertising deal.

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Speech recognition software maker Nuance has filed a federal lawsuit against a start-up it says has infringed on its patent for technology used in the Yahoo oneSearch mobile search service. The start-up, Vlingo, said it will fight the suit.
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So everyone is a buzz that Yahoo announced that it is now joining the OpenID craze. At the end of the month you will be able to visit openid.yahoo.com and set your Yahoo account to sign into other sites that support OpenID.
Sounds great. Anyone tried to use their OpenID from a different IdP to get [...]