Security Basics: RE: How to secure my yahoo account

["Hagen, Eric" <ehagen () DenverNewspaperAgency com>]

I would recommend using a more secure email service such as HushMail.  (I am
not affiliated with them, nor am I a customer since I run my own mail
service).  They offer secure encrypted webmail for free and let you pay for
an account with encrypted IMAP access and other goodies.  They store the
email encrypted on the server and you can choose to PGP encrypt outgoing
mail.  Also, it uses a client-side java encryption that ensures your
communications are given additional encryption beyond the HTTPS:// SSL.

If that's not an option, use the webbug to find out if someone is spying on
you and/or change your password as soon as possible if you're worried about
your security.

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Farid [mailto:securitybox () fusemail com]
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:13 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: How to secure my yahoo account


Hi

How can you know if your yahoo account password has been cracked in case 
the cracker doesn't change it or manipulate any other data relevant to 
your account(for instance after reading your mails marks them as 
unread,etc)? Is there a sort of login log on yahoo? How can I get sure 
that my account never gets hacked? Is password cracking possible since 
yahoo changed her authentication method? I have heard of yahoo password 
crackers which without any sort of social engineering or keylogging could 
give you the passwd.

cheers

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