Cybersecurity

Yahoo To Warn Users Of State Sponsored Hacking

Yahoo is now starting to warn users if they’ve been targeted by state-sponsored hackers, following similar moves by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

The announcement came from the company’s newly appointed chief information security officer, Bob Lord, who wrote in a blog post: “We’ll provide these specific notifications so that our users can take appropriate measures to protect their accounts and devices in light of these sophisticated attacks.”

Targeted users will be notified by Yahoo’s security team, the so called “Paranoids,” who will instruct them to perform “specific actions” to ensure the security of their accounts.

Yahoo has been trying to beef up the security of it services, in a move initiated by Lord’s predecessor, Alex Stamos, who has now left to work at Facebook. Security measures offered to users now include two-factor authentication and verifying that account recovery information is recent and correct.