Re: [iPad] My apologies, again. My Y! account was hijacked...again.

 

When you say logged in do you mean log off when you are not on your computer? I have my computer on all day and check email frequently. I don't logout off my account when I shut it off at night.

Judith Barnett
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On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:28 PM, Bob Cook <BobandMary@escapees.com> wrote:

This is coming from a reflected XSS attack, and all computers and browsers are vulnerable.  First, always use the option to log into your Yahoo Mail account SECURELY.  And, this applies to you if your provider, such as Bellsouth or SBCGlobal contracts with Yahoo for email services (@sbcglobal.com, @bellsouth.net, etc email address).  And, you have a fairly good chance of avoiding this problem if you never click links in emails.

Last, and very impt, DO NOT stay logged into your Yahoo email account.  This is key to hijacking your address book.

Bob 

-Bob


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Budd <n7eoj@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

For the third time in two months, my Y! email account has been hijacked. Second time this week.
This is happening to a LOT of Y! accounts lately.
It is not a password thing.  1st time was a 12 character, 2nd was 16 character, 3rd was 22 character, mixed upper, lower case, numbers & special characters.
I believe they are capturing/hijacking the session.  Then sending to everything in your Contacts list.  I'm told smartphone light weight browsers are also being targeted.

Every time it has happened, was same time I would login from another PC.
This has only been happening when using a Windows PC (3 different ones now) running Internet Explorer.  

Time to close my Y! account and move to another provider.


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