[ARC5] Anyone Using Yahoo Email Accounts

[Fred Cousins]

The Admin is correct in saying that many Yahoo accounts have compromised-
there is a excellent article in ARS Technica this morning about
this particular attack-

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/how-yahoo-allowed-hackers-to-hijack-my-neighbors-e-mail-account/


Part of the problem lies in the recent  vulnerabilities that have come to
light with Oracle's Java run time environment - the concern in
the computer  security world about JAVA is so bad that the Department
of Homeland Security has issued a recommendation that all government owned
computers have JAVA run-time in web browsers disabled. You can do this in
JAVA 7 Rev 11  - by following Oracle link:

 http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml

Needless to say,  this might affect the way  some  web pages will function,
however, I have not noticed any significant impact on my daily browsing
habits. It is my opinion that many web developers have moved to other code
applets on their web pages anyways.


Fred Cousins