Yahoo Mail App Allows Users With No Password To Login

Yahoo today launched a redesigned Mail app which allows users without a password to login. In addition, e-mail accounts from multiple e-mail providers are supported, as the Internet giant announced. New in the app is the addition of the "Yahoo! Account Key".

This key is according to Yahoo a simpler and safer alternative to the password. During login, users need a password to give more but simply a tap of a button. In this case, a notification with the Key Account is sent to the smartphone. The user can then via a single tap to confirm that he really wants to log in, then he is also logged as Yahoo late in a blog posting know. The new Yahoo Mail app is available for iOS and will appear later today on Google Play.

Great Email Service SendGrid Hacked Account Via Employee

The major e-mail service SendGrid, which include e-mails sent to Pinterest, Uber, Foursquare, Hootsuite and Spotify, has warned customers that their data may be stolen. On 8 April, the SendGrid account of Coinbase hacked , a large Bitcoin exchange, and used to send phishing emails. At first thought SendGrid that it was an isolated incident.

Further investigation revealed that the account was hacked by a SenGrid employee and was used by a cyber criminal to approach various internal systems. These systems contained user names, email addresses and customize stretched and saved passwords. The cyber criminal could access servers with e-mail lists and addresses received from customers of the customers SendGrid. In theory, it could go to millions of users.

According SendGrid there is no evidence that this data is also captured. However, as a precaution decided to reset the passwords of all customers. In addition to resetting the passwords SendGrid customers will also generate their DKIM keys again. DKIM is a digital signature that verifies the domain where the emails were sent from. Because of the new DKIM keys will also be the DNS of the domain name must be modified. How not know the account of the employee could be hacked SendGrid late. However, the e-mail service will tighten security.

Free Online Service Scans Inbox Passwords

Many Internet users would save passwords in the inbox of their email account, so that risk once the account is hacked. Security Dash Lane has developed an online service that checks the contents of the inbox on passwords and then displays.

In this way, users can see which online accounts they have all signed up and how many passwords and login data are yet to be found in their inbox. Even if the accounts are no longer used this forms according Dash Lane a risk because they can help logging in to other accounts, especially if the same password is used for multiple accounts.

Dash Lane forgets to mention that an attacker access to the email account has in many cases other accounts registered to take over at the e-mail account by resetting the password, assuming a different password for these accounts than that of the email account is used. Scan Inbox , such as the online service is called, is free to use. Found personal information according Dash Lane only visible to users and not for the company.