On 9 December 2012 17:37, Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected]>wrote:
> Without SPF protection, I could send e-mails which look like they > originate from your account, and the receiver will have no means of > verifying the sender address since SPF isn't implemented. That's one of > many reasons why Yahoo! is a bad e-mail service provider. I'm not saying we > should ban all users of Yahoo!; I'm saying Yahoo! as a service provider > should be boycotted due to the numerous flaws in their service. > > That said, I'm glad you managed to change the password so you didn't lose > the account. Such things can be a real pain otherwise! Do you know how the > breach happened? > > The "breach" will most likely happen again... I doubt that the person actually got into his mailbox. Most spam from yahoo addresses tends to be from botnets that take advantage of the fact that one cannot legitimately check whether its actually yahoo who sent the email. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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