Hundreds of Yahoo’s joined CEO Marissa Mayer yesterday in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at our Sunnyvale campus.
Yahoo responds to the ALS Ice Bucket challenge!
Two Key New Hires for Our Security Team
By Alex Stamos, VP of Information Security
The security of our users is a huge focus for us at Yahoo. We’re deploying encryption technologies across our platform, encouraging our partners to ensure that any data running on our network is secure, and improving the security of the overall web…
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Who has your back? Yahoo does. Check out this article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Yahoo DMARC Policy Change - What Should Senders Do?
By The Yahoo Mail Team
We recently changed our DMARC policy to proactively protect our users from increasing email spam that uses Yahoo users’ email addresses from other mail servers. This is an important step to secure our users’ email identities from being used by unauthorized senders. It…
Status Update: Encryption at Yahoo
By Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer
When I joined Yahoo four weeks ago, we were in the middle of a massive project to protect our users and their data through the deployment of encryption technologies as we discussed in our November 2013 Tumblr.
So today, we’re updating you…
Yahoo Messenger 11 Abuse Report Form
If you’re being bullied or harassed online, you don’t have to take it. First, take screenshots of the offending messages and save a copy of the conversation history. Then block the perpetrator in Messenger, and fill out this form to report them.
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Have you ever been Phished? Do you know how to spot a Phishing email or instant message?
If you ever feel unsure that an email is officially from Yahoo, please send a message to Yahoo Messenger on Facebook or @Yahoomessenger on Twitter, and I’ll be glad to confirm or assuage your suspicions.
When was the last time you changed your password? If you can’t remember, consider changing it today.
100 million ways to say I love you with Yahoo Mail
This one goes out to all you lovebirds out there!
Introducing Autocompose by Yahoo Mail. The first love letter generator that lives right in your inbox. Just choose the kind of love you want to send and let Autocompose do the rest. Finally, the perfect words for everyone in your life.
Tell your sweetie that they play the strings of your heart with delicate grace, or tell your best friend that you wish you had even a quarter of their swagger. Feeling disenchanted with V-Day? There’s a whole category for you, too. With 100 million different message options, there’s no shortage of love to go around.
Do you remember the answers to your security questions? Take some time today to pick fresh questions and new, easily remembered answers. Choose questions that have meaningful, but private answers. If none of the suggested questions apply to you personally, you can create your own question.
Get started here:
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile
Some guidelines to keep in mind:
* Security questions must be 5 to 100 characters in length and may only contain letters and numbers.
* The answers to your questions must be 4 to 32 characters in length and may only contain letters and numbers.
* Security questions cannot contain the answer.
* The security questions cannot be the same.
* The answers to your two security questions cannot be the same.
