Full Disclosure: Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate?

[Ferdinand Klinzer <Klinzer () gmx de>]

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I think the adress is

security () yahoo com

Cheers

Ferdinand from Germany

Am 06.02.2008 um 11:58 schrieb Vincent van Scherpenseel:

> Their abuse policy of course!
>
> Last week a client's server was being attacked (some old Tomcat5 vuln)
> and used to attack other servers (ssh login guessing). The results of
> these dictionary attack were being mailed to the address
> 'blax2004us () yahoo com':
> cat vuln.txt |mail -s "Lame Gang Us Roots" blax2004us () yahoo com
>
> After I addressed the vulnerability I decided to contact yahoo.com  
> about
> this issue. Of course the only way to do this was by browsing the
> Yahoo.com site for any abuse/security contacts. After a while I  
> found a
> form I could use to notify them of abuse of their services. So I wrote
> them a quick explanation about what was going on including the e-mail
> address of the account used to harvest passwords.
>
> After a couple of hours I received an e-mail from 'Marcus' a Yahoo!
> Customer Care representative (44592956) asking me to provide a the  
> full
> subject and other headers from the spam I had received.
>
> After writing back kindly that I had no spam complaint but wanted to
> report the mal-use of an account of theirs I received another reply a
> little while later asking me to provide my *personal* information  
> about
> my account and what errors I got when I tried to login. Well, I don't
> even *have* an Yahoo! account.
>
> So, what do you do when you want to report something like this? In  
> fact
> I'm doing them a favor by reporting but all I got is this lousy
> response. I'll have to think twice about reporting something like this
> next time...
>
> Does anyone know an Yahoo! security contact that actually does his  
> job?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Vincent van Scherpenseel
>
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