NEW YORK (AP) — Watching NFL football games on your phone used to be mainly limited to Verizon customers. Soon anyone will be able to watch football games on the go for free on Yahoo’s app, now that Verizon owns Yahoo. But people who want to watch football through online-TV services like Sling or YouTube […]
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Yahoo’s big breach helps usher in an age of hacker anxiety
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon — massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our personal digital accounts, or from big organizations that hold sensitive data on our behalf. On Wednesday, Yahoo disclosed a gargantuan breach affecting more than a billion […]
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Yahoo confirms data breach affecting at least 500 million accounts
Source: Graphiq Yahoo on Thursday confirmed that at least 500 million user accounts had their information compromised in a massive hack that it believes was perpetrated by a state-sponsored actor. The scale of the breach makes it among the largest on record. In a lengthy post on its company website, Yahoo’s chief information security officer […]
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NSA copies data flowing to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions […]
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To build better school community, moms launching PTO
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Middle School needs a parent-teacher organization, Principal Shawn Chabot said. “Having good two-way communication with families is critical,” Chabot said. Some students get lost academically in middle school, “which sets up hard times at the high school. If we can make this transition positive for kids, we’re setting them up for […]