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Yahoo Email Security Patch Ineffective, Researchers Say
- InfoWorld, Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:52 PM
A security patch released by Yahoo earlier this week to address a vulnerability exposed last week is ineffective, according to researchers at Offensive Security. The researchers used a video to demonstrate that the patch provided by Yahoo does little to defend against an attack. The vulnerability was made public last week when a hacker posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how to breach the system's security with a malicious link in a spam message.
