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[Dewbie]

From HOTforSecurity:

[Bruce B]

[ETP]

This theft of account data from email servers is becoming more common and I was hit yesterday. There is little you can do to prevent it but you can take steps to alert yourself to it and to minimise the effects.

1. Use a client to access your hotmail account such as Outlook/Thunderbird and restrict the contacts list on the server to only a couple of names. (Ideally only people you know to be tech savvy and likely to recognise spam)

2. Make sure that you include your own email address on the contacts list held on the server. If your account is compromised spam will be sent to everyone on your list and you will immediately be alerted when you appear to send yourself an email.


If you do suffer an attack swiftly change your password and security questions/ answers. Also alert the users on your web based contact list - which will only be a couple of people if you follow this advice.

[mini-jaguar]

Yahoo mail has been having security problems since the 1990s, nothing new.

Also, nothing new that some accounts have gotten malware that takes all the people from their friend lists and gives it to sketchy accounts, scammers I suppose, in the messenger.

[nooby]

Ooops so what other email provider should I use?
Gmail also have been hacked or? hotmail also hacked?

What about http://www.superheromail.com/
would that be for real or a humorous joke?

he writes he is tired of all the big ones and created it
for to get a secure email but that domain name is childish?

[GustavoYz]

There is nothing new on any of that, just a clever phising campaign using a XSS attack against people who click spammy links from unknown senders.

I see no reason to be worried, the e-mail protocol and any decent mail server is quite segure if you don't aloud mime files to be loaded (which should happen by default) and don't click spam links.

[Dewbie]

I just received two more spam-link e-mails from hijacked Yahoo! accounts.
Judging by the sheer volume of complaints, this seems to affect Yahoo! more than others.

British Telecom recently dumped them after numerous complaints from customers.
(Apparently, Yahoo! has other priorities. )