So how does Yahoo’s Yahoo Account Key password-free log-in work?
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Yahoo believes the new feature will be more secure because most people rely on passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. Though, Gmail support has not been provided so far, but all the Yahoo mail features can be accessed by users across their existing supported mail boxes. “Account Key streamlines the sign-in process with a secure, elegant and easy-to-use interface that makes access as easy as tapping a button”, Dylan Casey, vice president of product management at Yahoo said in a blog post.
Yahoo Mail users will be able to connect and manage their email accounts from Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail, right from Yahoo Mail on mobile and desktop, it said. Yahoo also has added a few new swiping gestures and contextual search for the app. This isn’t your grandma’s Yahoo Mail app!
“Security attacks are unfortunately becoming a more regular occurrence”, Yahoo senior vice president for platforms and personalization products Jay Rossiter said at the time that cyber attacks were “becoming a more regular occurrence”.
The Telegraph reports that the app uses Yahoo Account Key, which sends you a push notification asking you if you are trying to sign into your email.
The app update is important to Yahoo because more than half of its email users check their messages on mobile devices first and foremost.
Yahoo says that its new Mail app will allows users to connect to Twitter, LinedIn and Facebook to add photos and create contact cards with details, including social media profiles.
Quite a few companies agree that passwords have become insecure over the years and that we need to move on to better options.
“Account Key resolves a number of common problems with passwords: that you forget them; that you reuse them for multiple services, making you more vulnerable when one of those services inevitably is hacked; that you don’t have a second method of authentication in case someone else ever gets their hands on your password”, Newton continued.
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A malicious computer program armed with Yahoo Mail passwords and usernames apparently slipped into accounts aiming to glean names and addresses from messages that had been sent.
