Comments on: No Phishing

By: Logan

Logan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:13 +0000

When web sites ask for things like passwords, exit off of there and don’t go back to that site unless it is a reliable source.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:18:14 +0000

Tim, the issue with trying to provide an image based on your user name is: we have no idea if you really are who you say you are until you actually log in, so we’d need you to have successfully logged in before we could give you your user-name-based security image. That defeats the purpose, though, because we’re trying to make sure that you only enter your login information once you’re sure that you’re really talking to us (and not some phishing site).

So what we’re doing instead is tossing some data onto your computer that only our site can read, meaning that we’ll (essentially) be the only website on the internet that can look into that data and figure out the correct image to display. Once you have that image set up, it allows you to quickly verify that your computer trusts the Yahoo! login site that you’re visiting. Hopefully you can trust your computer about that sort of thing. :)

By: Barron

Barron — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:00:08 +0000

Yup, I figured it out the next time I saw the foldover, and moused over it. Thanks.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:55:25 +0000

Barron

You have to click on the Prevent Password theft foldover deal on the login. I found out you have to do it for each browser you use.

It is kind of cool but I wish they would have implemented by user name instead of each computer if you use a few computer you have to set it up on each computer and each browser you use on each computer.

Yahoo for Y! Cool Thing.

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Y! Cool Thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Lazy Monday — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:51:31 +0000

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By: jr

jr — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:49:29 +0000

Huh,

There was no official announcement about this, but I’ve gotten plenty of reports of it available world wide. It may still be “rolling out”.

If you go to login.yahoo.com, you should see something that looks similar to the screenshot I posted.

By: Barron

Barron — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:39:20 +0000

I don’t see anything about a security flag at login.yahoo.com. I tried checking at the Security Center, and couldn’t find anything there, either. Am I missing something?