Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!
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500m web users hit by biggest hack in history
State-sponsored hackers have stolen details of more than 500 million people in the biggest security breach ever committed.After months of damaging speculation Yahoo admitted that details of personal
What the actual fuck? People still use Yahoo?
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I spotted one of my colleagues using it the other day ... he's a nice guy otherwise I would have smacked him with the keyboard.
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I'm still surprised that the company still exists. And how the fuck do they still manage to make enough money to employ almost 10,000 people?
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The president's daughter has web-scale breeches?
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@LaoC said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
The president's daughter has web-scale breeches?
Indeed. The prezdint's significant-other-for-show, sure, but not their spawn.
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@asdf said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
I'm still surprised that the company still exists. And how the fuck do they still manage to make enough money to employ almost 10,000 people?
Yahoo said in https://investor.yahoo.net/results.cfm:
"With the lowest cost structure and headcount in a decade, we continue to make solid progress against our 2016 plan. Through disciplined expense management and focused execution, we delivered Q2 results that met guidance across the board and in some areas exceeded it," said Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. "In addition to our efforts to improve the operating business, our board has made great progress on strategic alternatives. We are relentlessly focused on delivering shareholder value."
$ in millions Q1’15 Q2’15 Q3’15 Q4’15 Q1’16 Q2’16 GAAP net earnings $21 ($22) $76 ($4,435) ($99) ($440) GAAP net margin 2% (2%) 6% N/M (9%) (34%) Solid progress indeed.
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@DogsB Yahoo mail actually works pretty well. If you use adblock it's as good as Gmail (at least as far as I can tell, I'm not a webmail pro).
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@clatter said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
Solid progress indeed.
The Q4'15 earnings look like something exceptional was booked at that point — which isn't necessarily a big problem — but the downward trend since that point looks more serious. Did they sell something at a loss in Q4'15 that was a substantial revenue generator? (CBA to check…)
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@dkf The official explanation is:
We recorded a $4,461 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge as a result of our annual goodwill impairment test conducted in the fourth quarter of 2015. We concluded that the carrying value of our U.S. & Canada, Europe, Latin America and Tumblr reporting units exceeded their respective estimated fair values. The goodwill impairment resulted from a combination of factors, including decreases in our market capitalization, projected operating results and estimated future cash flows.
So, they suddenly realised their brand is worthless.
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@anonymous234 I can also confirm, I am a Yahoo user. It was my first mail account that my parents created for me long before I created a Google account and started using GMail more. There's a lot of old stuff I'm too lazy to move over. Also Yahoo has actual folders and filters compared to GMail's labels.
As for how this breach affected me - all I had to do was delete my security questions. They make it easy and tell you it makes your account more secure.
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@clatter
$ in millions
$ in hundreds would not surprise me
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@dkf
errrrr.... i am not an expert in these but isn't () indicating a negative numberok - looked it up:
Yahoo beats on earnings, stock slightly down
Yahoo is reporting its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday. It's expected to announce new cost-cutting plans, including a 15% reduction in workforce.
Net loss for full year 2015 came in at $4.35 billion, largely due to a $4.5 billion goodwill impairment charge, indicating the company might have overpaid for some of its startup acquisitions.Just realised that @clatter has already done this
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@Helix said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
errrrr.... i am not an expert in these but isn't () indicating a negative number
Yes. That's how financial things tend to report negatives. The “exceptional thing” that was booked was a loss, and a big one-off like that doesn't necessarily indicate a problem; shit genuinely sometimes just happens and that's how life goes. Much more worrying (were I an investor) is the haemorrhaging afterwards; that's what the management ought to be hauled over the coals for.
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@clatter said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@dkf The official explanation is:
We recorded a $4,461 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge as a result of our annual goodwill impairment test conducted in the fourth quarter of 2015. We concluded that the carrying value of our U.S. & Canada, Europe, Latin America and Tumblr reporting units exceeded their respective estimated fair values. The goodwill impairment resulted from a combination of factors, including decreases in our market capitalization, projected operating results and estimated future cash flows.
So, they suddenly realised their brand is worthless.
If only they had tilted the exclamation point in their logo another 2% to the right to add slightly more whimsy this could all have been avoided.
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@anonymous234 said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB Yahoo mail actually works pretty well. If you use adblock it's as good as Gmail (at least as far as I can tell, I'm not a webmail pro).
My wife uses Yahoo mail for the same reason and in the same way I use hotmail:
- Have had the address for more than a decade
- It's the go-to signup email for forums and newsletters
- Filter set to "exclusive" so 99% of the mail goes to junk and 1% makes it to inbox, like it should be
- Have a real email address for actual use
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I've had the same email address for a bajillion years and never saw any reason to migrate.
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@mott555 said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I've had the same email address for a bajillion years and never saw any reason to migrate.
Same here
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Same here
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This thread went from "nobody uses Yahoo mail" to "everyone uses Yahoo mail" real quick.
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And if all Yahoo mail users reading this gave just 88 million dollars, our fundraiser would be done within an hour.
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
500m web users hit by biggest hack in history
State-sponsored hackers have stolen details of more than 500 million people in the biggest security breach ever committed.After months of damaging speculation Yahoo admitted that details of personal
What the actual fuck? People still use Yahoo?
Yeah, mostly for trolling.
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@Luhmann said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I spotted one of my colleagues using it the other day ... he's a nice guy otherwise I would have smacked him with the keyboard.
You should strip him and tie him to a fire hydrant.
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@anonymous234 said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB Yahoo mail actually works pretty well. If you use adblock and close your eyes and make sure no one every emails you and you don't send any emails yourself it's as good as Gmail (at least as far as I can tell, I'm not a webmail pro).
FTFY
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@lolwhat said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@LaoC said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
The president's daughter has web-scale breeches?
Indeed. The prezdint's significant-other-for-show, sure, but not their spawn.
Umm, what? What's going on?
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@presidentsdaughter said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@lolwhat said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@LaoC said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
The president's daughter has web-scale breeches?
Indeed. The prezdint's significant-other-for-show, sure, but not their spawn.
Umm, what? What's going on?
Hi Ms. Obama! We were hoping you could fill us in on that.
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@pydsigner Or is it Miss Obama?
TRIGGER WARNING
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I found out one of my fellow interns plays Overwatch, so I asked him for his email to add him to my Battle.Net account friends so we can play together. It's a yahoo email. :sigh.gif:
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@anonymous234 said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB Yahoo mail actually works pretty well. If you use adblock it's as good as Gmail (at least as far as I can tell, I'm not a webmail pro).
My original Yahoo account has been compromised twice with no keylogger on my machine and a unique password over 30 characters long the second time and a mostly unique password over 15 characters long the first time. I made a new one, and I got a spam email on it the day after I made it, despite not having used it at all.
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@kt_ said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@Luhmann said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I spotted one of my colleagues using it the other day ... he's a nice guy otherwise I would have smacked him with the keyboard.
You should strip him and tie him to a fire hydrant.
That sounds kind of fun tbh
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@Fox said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
I found out one of my fellow interns plays Overwatch, so I asked him for his email to add him to my Battle.Net account friends so we can play together. It's a yahoo email. :sigh.gif:
Kill him, then torture him, then cut off his members and dump them into a river.
It's the only way to be sure. A mistake would cost too much.
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
People still use Yahoo?
Yup. But only because I have a Yahoo business account. (They - well the people they sold it to, Aabaco - host my website.) And to access my domain's email via the web, I have to tie it to a Yahoo account. (No one knows my yahoo acct. And almost unbelievably, I get no spam on it)
Now Aabaco sent an email that they're going to get rid of POP-only email access (must be POP+web access). Guess what, my-domain-acct to Yahoo acct is 1:1. So I have to create a new Yahoo account for every POP acct I've created. Fuckers. (I only have 3, but still...)
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@kt_ said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
a fire hydrant
We hardly have a fire extinguisher in the office
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THE PRESIDENT'S NECK IS MISSING
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@Luhmann said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@kt_ said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
a fire hydrant
We hardly have a fire extinguisher in the office
It will do, just hit him with it first.
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@kt_
What else is it there for
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@Fox said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
My original Yahoo account has been compromised twice with no keylogger on my machine and a unique password over 30 characters long the second time and a mostly unique password over 15 characters long the first time. I made a new one, and I got a spam email on it the day after I made it, despite not having used it at all.
Back in the day I abandoned Hotmail when I created a new email address because the old one was getting too much spam and within 5 minutes the new one started getting spam. I had not even used it for anything yet.
Then I went to Yahoo mail for much the same reason. Ended up leaving them for Gmail when I received a beta invite. Have not had any issues with spam since and have had the same personal email address for over a decade.
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@Luhmann said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@kt_ said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
a fire hydrant
We hardly have a fire extinguisher in the office
Hit him with it.
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@Polygeekery said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@Luhmann said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
@kt_ said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
a fire hydrant
We hardly have a fire extinguisher in the office
Hit him with it.
d.
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
What the actual fuck? People still use Yahoo?
It's their patriotic duty.
Yahoo 'secretly monitored emails on behalf of the US government'
Company complied with a classified directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of NSA or FBI, say former employees
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@Fox said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
My original Yahoo account has been compromised twice with no keylogger on my machine and a unique password over 30 characters long the second time and a mostly unique password over 15 characters long the first time. I made a new one, and I got a spam email on it the day after I made it, despite not having used it at all.
Yahoo is horrible for CSRF.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
Yahoo is horrible
for CSRF.FTFY
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@DogsB said in Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!:
500m web users hit by biggest hack in history
State-sponsored hackers have stolen details of more than 500 million people in the biggest security breach ever committed.After months of damaging speculation Yahoo admitted that details of personal
What the actual fuck? People still use Yahoo?
Why not?
It's more or less like your phone number. You won't want to change it often or friends who no longer has direct contact with you will lose contact permenantly.
