Yahoo has denied building software that allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to scan all incoming emails of its users. According to a report in Reuters, the company worked in concert with the National Security Agency and FBI to spy on hundreds of millions of email accounts. "We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimize disclosure," Yahoo said in a statement. "The mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems."

Yahoo reportedly created a classified software program that allowed the U.S. government to scan users emails for specific information. The company allegedly scanned hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts in real time to search for keywords provided by intelligence agencies. The news comes after news that Yahoo was hacked and exposed the user data of 500 million accounts.

Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority has introduced a new program to send email and text alerts to customers about schedule delays. The messages will include information about delays or construction on a specific line and proposed alternatives and detours.

Canadian Magna Terra Health Services has upset customers after a data breach exposed their email addresses. The organization's system accidentally sent an email to almost 500 people with the email addresses of medical marijuana customers.

Email users are unable to identify half of phishing emails presented to them, according to a recent study from Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. The research revealed that while the majority of emails looked legitimate, about 75 percent of phishing links were not clicked on.

U.S. white collar workers have increased the amount that the check email by 17 percent over the last year, according to a new study from Adobe. Seventy percent of people that responded to the survey said that texting has impacted work emails. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said that emails have become shorter and 20 percent said that email has become less formal.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said that Yahoo did the best they could when it came to the data breach that exposed the information of 500 million users. In an on-stage interview at Advertising Week, Armstrong said: "Security and data is going to be something that goes on for hundreds of years probably in the future, so we are at the beginning of that stage. I think Yahoo has tried to do the best job they can. There's nobody at Yahoo who wanted the situation to happen the way it did."

Ninety-one percent of teens use YouTube and seventy-five percent use Gmail, according to a study from The National Cyber Security Alliance and Microsoft. The organization polled 804 US teen internet users aged 13-17 and found that SnapChat, Facebook and Instagram were less popular.

A man that hacked into the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of celebrities in Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to computer fraud in federal court. Edward Majerczyk plead guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and faces five years in prison. According to authorities, he used a phishing scheme to steal passwords.

Federal authorities are investigating an email hack that went after a White House staffer's private Gmail account. The person's emails were posted on the hacktivist site DC Leaks. The emails revealed coordination of U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement for Michelle Obama's travel.