You can go to a website, saw it on CNN to check if your yahoo email addy was hacked.
http://labs.sucuri.net/?yahooleak Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 12, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:24:20 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: > >> One of the things you can do, I just did, was Create a text >> or image seal ...it's stored on your computer > > The Yahoo "Sign-in seal" is just an image (or text) that is stored > on your computer. When you go to the Yahoo login page, it > displays your image if it can find it. Then you look at it to make > sure it is really your sign-in seal. Its purpose is to give you > assurance that the page where you are entering your password > is actually a Yahoo page. You can also do that by checking > what site the page is from. > > Yahoo promotes it as a way to protect your password. All it > really does is to give you another verification that you entering > your information on the yahoo site rather than a phishing site. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
