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+-   Security flaw in Yahoo mail exposes plaintext auth on Saturday September 27 2008, @12:04AM holdenkarau

Submitted by holdenkarau on Saturday September 27 2008, @12:04AM
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holdenkarau writes "Yahoo!'s acquisition of opensource mail client Zimbra has apparently brought some baggage to the mail team. The new Yahoo! desktop program transmits the authentication information in plain text. Ironically enough, the flaw was discovered during a Yahoo "hacku" day at the University of Waterloo (the only Canadian school part of the trip). Compared to the recent hoopla about gmail exposing the names associated with accounts, this seems down right scary. So if you have friends or relatives who might have installed Yahoo! desktop and value their e-mail accounts, now would be a good time to get them to change the password and switch back to the oh so retro web interface."
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