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Re: [LUG] Yahoo, was: Web based emails

 

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:50:03 +0000, Martijn Grooten
<martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Given that I've been very vocal on this in the past, I feel obliged to
>say that I see very little evidence of this these days. Yahoo has spent
>a lot of effort on security recently and this is probably one of the
>results.
>

Not too sure on this. Both my partner and step-daughter have Yahoo Mail
accounts and I have received spam in the last month or so pretending to
be from them although actually originating elsewhere. I assumed
that their Yahoo Mail address books were compromised sometime in the
past although how long ago that was who knows?

Kevin

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