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The Supreme Judicial Court said that a lower court was wrong to conclude that the Stored Communications Act prohibited Yahoo from giving Robert and Marianne Ajemian access to their Brother John's email messages.

Yahoo can provide dead man’s emails to family

The Supreme Judicial Court tossed the lower court ruling and returned it for further consideration.

17 Oct 2017 3:08 PM

ahoo said last December that data from more than 1 billion accounts were compromised in 2013

Yahoo says all 3 billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft

The news expands the likely number and claims of class action lawsuits by shareholders and Yahoo account holders

04 Oct 2017 10:31 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Can bosses snoop on employees? European court to rule

The judges are expected to clarify if and when an employer is able to access private internet messages sent by employees while at work.

05 Sep 2017 1:37 PM

The apex court asked them to provide such details they received last year and this year till August 31 and also about the action taken by them on such complaints.

SC directs Google, FB to give inputs on objectionable videos

Internet giants were directed by the SC to furnish details of complaints on objectionable contents including child pornography and rape.

05 Sep 2017 8:13 AM

It seems that all those clicks that you, as advertiser, paid for, well, many of them were not clicked by humans but by clever robotic programmes.

Ad Nauseam: Bot attack!

Fraudulent clicks by robot programmes inflate Google advertisers’ billings. The episode unveils the larger risks of digital marketing.

03 Sep 2017 2:23 AM

The game was linked to at least three suicides of young Indians barely into their teens, influenced by an inexplicable trend of believing everything on the Web belongs to the real world and its challenges.

Take down ‘Blue Whale’

The new generation seems emboldened to the extent of addiction to clearly harmful phenomena.

17 Aug 2017 12:59 AM

Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer resigned as expected, as Verizon finalized the $4.48 billion deal integrating the Yahoo internet operations into a new unit called Oath. (Photo:AFP)

Yahoo signs off, completes sale to Verizon

Yahoo CEO resigned as expected, as Verizon finalized the $4.48 bn deal integrating the Yahoo internet operations into a new unit Oath.

14 Jun 2017 8:22 AM

The deal merging Yahoo's internet operations with Verizon's AOL, now expected to be finalized June 13, will create a new unit to be named Oath. (Photo: AFP)

Yahoo-Verizon deal set to close June 13

Verizon's internet division AOL and Yahoo will be combined into a unit called Oath.

09 Jun 2017 7:57 AM

It can be helpful for people who want to watch a live event streaming on YouTube or dedicated YouTube shows with their pals.

Tumblr releases the Cabana app for Android

Tumblr’s new social app lets five people take part in a video call for watching YouTube content together.

07 Jun 2017 12:53 PM

A BSI spokesman said it decided to go public after Yahoo repeatedly failed to respond to efforts to look into the data breaches and garner lessons to prevent similar lapses.

German cyber agency chides Yahoo for not helping hacking probe

Yahoo did not respond to requests for comment, while Ireland's data protection agency was not immediately available

11 May 2017 7:50 PM

Yahoo said it has been cooperating with the commissioner's office on the investigation

Yahoo's EU regulator to complete email investigation within weeks

A new EU-wide data protection law coming into force in May 2018 allows fines of up to 4 per cent of global turnover

12 Apr 2017 7:34 AM

Yahoo punishes CEO in latest fallout from security breakdown

Mayer won't be paid her annual bonus nor receive a potentially lucrative stock award

02 Mar 2017 9:11 AM

The company said some of the latest intrusions can be connected to the "same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the 2014 breach", in which at least 500 million accounts were affected.

About 32 mn accounts accessed using 'forged cookies': Yahoo

These cookies have been invalidated so they cannot be used to access user accounts, the company said.

02 Mar 2017 7:45 AM

Yahoo has over 1 billion monthly users worldwide and the agreements open up a new channel for British publishers to reach this vast global audience.

Yahoo announces global content partnerships with The Telegraph and the Guardian

The move enables the publishers to distribute content via a curated feed, created in partnership with Yahoo in five countries.

21 Feb 2017 6:53 PM

Yahoo announced in September that hackers in 2014 stole personal data from more than 500 million of its user accounts.

Yahoo notifies users of sophisticated breach methods

The company was notifying all potentially affected users and that it had ‘invalidated’ the forged cookies, said Yahoo.

16 Feb 2017 8:00 AM

Google to put a ban on all Torrent websites

You may no longer have access to Torrent websites.

13 Feb 2017 5:53 PM

Yahoo's top official to leave company after merger

Chief executive Marissa Mayer will quit the company's board after its merger with Verizon.

10 Jan 2017 8:01 AM

The company plans to change its name to Altaba Inc. after it turns over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon.

Yahoo to change name, trim board if Verizon deal gets done

Yahoo has a deal to sell its core internet business to Verizon for $4.83 billion.

10 Jan 2017 7:27 AM

US president-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)

Yahoo deletes Trump tweet that included racist slur

When Yahoo was tweeting a Trump story, the word ‘bigger’ had an 'n' as its first letter instead of a 'b.'

06 Jan 2017 4:50 PM

In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, stealing the poorly encrypted passwords and other information in the biggest data breach on record.

Insights: Yahoo security problems a story of too little, too late

Yahoo only recently uncovered the hack and disclosed it last week.

19 Dec 2016 11:24 AM

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