Lord also described in the blog that Yahoo will provide its users with a list of options to secure their account in case of an attack. “In addition, these warnings to our users do not indicate that Yahoo’s internal systems have been compromised in any way”. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo Inc. now joins the list of companies looking to actively fight attacks from state-backed hackers.
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Other companies, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, have had a similar policy for a while.
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Lord explained that the notifications will provide targeted users specific actions they can take to help ensure that their Yahoo accounts are safe and secure. Google, meanwhile, made this move in 2012 for a subset of its customers who it believed might be targets for malware, phishing or other attacks from state-sponsored actors.
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However, he clarified that if a user receives such notifications, it does not necessarily mean that the account has been compromised.
In the blog post announcing the policy, Yahoo outlined several steps to improve the security of your accounts, such as enabling two-step verification or reviewing your recent activity in account settings.
Yahoo will now warn users of suspected state-sponsored attacks.
Twitter actually just warned a small number of users in early December that they may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks. Last month, staffers with the US State Department became the victims of cyberattacks waged over Facebook.
If you receive a notification from Yahoo the first thing you should do is turn on your “Account Key” that lets you sign into your account without using a memorised password.
As expected, the company isn’t revealing how it knows if an account has been targeted, or exactly how it determines the attacks are originating from government-sponsored hackers, but Yahoo did say it would only send an alert if “we have a high degree of confidence” a user is at risk.
Chief rival Google had started issuing such caution three years ago.
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The alleged hackers are from China or Russian Federation who can not rip through corporate or government agency networks, and instead divert their attention on infiltrating an organization via the personal accounts of the employees.
