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Yahoo Mail Under Attack, Users Asked To Change Passwords
Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo Mail users, with reports of yet another attack on its email client.
In a blog post, Yahoo revealed to its users it has identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to an unidentified number of Yahoo Mail accounts. Upon discovery, Yahoo quickly sent out an email warning to affected users, asking them to change their passwords immediately.
According to Yahoo’s investigation, its own system was not compromised. Instead, the attackers infiltrated a third-party database to compromise the email accounts.
“Based on our current findings, the list of usernames and passwords that were used to execute the attack was likely collected from a third-party database compromise. We have no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo’s systems. Our ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts. The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails,” the poststated.
If you’re one of those who account has been compromised, when you next login, you’ll automatically be prompted to change your password. And if you have activated Yahoo’s two-step verification, you’ll be required to enter the code sent to your mobile phone to login.
No information was given as to how many accounts were affected.
Yahoo is said to be coordinating with federal law enforcement to find and prosecute the parties responsible for the attack, and assured its users that it has implemented additional security measures to prevent future attacks.
Today’s attack is just the latest in a string of security disasters for Yahoo Mail. In the first half of 2013, Yahoo Mail suffered multiple attacks but it did promise to fortify its security by announcing that it will finally rollout SSL encryption as the default setting for all Yahoo Mail users. Unfortunately, this effort may have been too late, or didn’t work, based on the new breach.
Besides dodging hackers, Yahoo Mail users have had to deal with plenty of other issues too. In the latter part of 2013, the service was hit with massive outages that lasted for weeks.
Syria barrel bombs 'kill dozens of civilians' in Aleppo
Syrian government forces have killed at least 46 civilians in air raids in the northern city of Aleppo, activists say.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says helicopters dropped barrel bombs - essentially barrels packed with explosives - on the city.
Aleppo has been the focus of bitter fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
Meanwhile militants linked to al-Qaeda are reported to have killed the leader of a rival Islamist militia there.
Fighters from the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) killed Adnan Bakkour during a raid on the base of rivals, the Tawheed Brigades, according to SOHR, a UK-based group that monitors the conflict.
'Liberation'
Attacks using barrel bombs and Scud missiles by President Assad's forces are believed to have killed hundreds of people in Aleppo since the conflict began almost three years ago.
The use of the barrel bombs has been condemned by rights groups as indiscriminate.
Thirty-three civilians, including women and children, died in a bombardment of the al-Bab area of Aleppo on Saturday, while at least 13 were killed in eastern areas of the city, SOHR said.
Rebel fighters were also killed by the bombs.
Russia has blocked statements at the UN Security Council condemning the Syrian government's use of air strikes against civilians in Aleppo.
Syrian government forces have launched an offensive in recent weeks on rebel-held areas in the east of the city, with Defence Minister Gen Fahd al-Freij visiting the province on Friday.
Quoted by state news agency Sana, he praised the army for its "great victories and their liberation of many areas in Aleppo".
More than 100,000 people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes in Syria's nearly three-year civil war.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26008512
Diver killed working on Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy
A diver died Saturday while working on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, apparently gashing his leg on an underwater metal sheet while preparing the wreck for removal, officials and news reports said.
Italy's civil protection agency, which is overseeing the removal of the Concordia from Tuscany's coast, said the diver hailed from Spain.
Tuscany's La Nazione newspaper said the diver had been working on preparations to affix huge tanks onto sides of the Concordia to float the ship off its false seabed and tow it to a port for eventual dismantling. It said he apparently gashed his leg on an underwater metal sheet and was then unable to get free, bleeding profusely before a diver colleague was able to bring him to the surface. The report said he was conscious upon surfacing but later died.
The diver, who wasn't identified by authorities, is the first to die in the line of work on salvaging the Concordia ever since it slammed into a reef off Giglio island on Jan. 13, 2012, killing 32 passengers and crew. A diver died last year, but the causes were reportedly unrelated to the work.
The Concordia was righted in preparation for removal during a remarkable, 19-hour engineering feat last fall in which a system of pulleys wrenched the 1,000-foot-long, 115,000-ton cruise ship from its side to vertical. A dozen giant tanks were affixed to its exposed port side and filled with water to help pull the ship upright.
The current project that the diver was working on was to prepare the starboard side, which had been underwater until the ship was righted, to hold a similar number of tanks.
The tanks will be emptied of water and used to literally float the wreck off the seabed, so it can be towed away from Giglio, brought to a port and taken apart for scrap. Officials say they hope to have it removed by June.
The $810 million removal project, which has already run nearly twice its original cost estimates, is the most ambitious ever attempted for a ship the size of the Concordia.
In a statement, the head of the civil protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, expressed condolences for the death and recalled the dedication of people working on the wreckage, saying they had worked "for two years without a break, in difficult conditions not without risks, to achieve the common goal of removing the Concordia from Giglio."
The ship's captain is currently on trial for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and leaving the ship before all passengers were evacuated. Prosecutors have accused him of taking the ship off course in a stunt to bring it closer to Giglio. Capt. Francesco Schettino has said he saved lives by steering the ship to shallow waters after it ran aground on a reef that wasn't on his nautical charts.
On Friday, Italy's highest court let stand plea bargains reached by five other Costa employees.
Costa is a unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise line.
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http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/02/01/22539396-diver-killed-working-on-costa-concordia-shipwreck-in-italy?lite
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