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• Judge rejects Yahoo data breach settlement

  A judge has rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.

• Rights groups and tech giants form alliance to fight encryption bill

  Digital Rights Watch, the Human Rights Law Centre, Amnesty International and Access Now have joined forces with a number of industry bodies representing the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple and Telstra to reject the government’s so called ‘encryption bill’.

• Accomplice who helped Yahoo email hackers gets five years in prison

  An accomplice accused of helping Russian agents break into Yahoo email accounts has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a US$250,000 fine.

• Victims of Yahoo data breach can sue in the United States

  Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.

• All 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2013

  Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, which already had spawned a nationwide lawsuit.

• Yahoo7 CTO Paul Russell on the media giant's stack overhaul

  ​In the highly competitive online news industry, readers are unforgiving of sluggish sites, poor user experience and dated features.

• Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks

  Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.

• Australian ministers, judges and premiers identified in Yahoo breach dataset

  ​Australian government officials – including cabinet and shadow-cabinet ministers, state premiers and Department of Defence employees, as well as judges and high ranking AFP officers – are reportedly among the victims of the 2013 Yahoo hack, newly released datasets reveal.

• Why you're not investing enough in IT security

  The minute you outsource responsibility or governance of information security to a third party, you tie a noose around your neck and hand the end of the rope to a vendor.​

• ​Marissa Mayer to resign from Yahoo board

  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the company’s board of directors after its $4.83 billion sale to Verizon is completed.
  

• How to replace 5 major Yahoo services and delete your Yahoo account

  Yahoo users have 1 billion more reasons to switch another major hack. Here's how to replace major Yahoo services with rivals and delete your Yahoo account.

• Verizon signals Yahoo data breach may affect acqusition

  Verizon has signaled that Yahoo's massive data breach may be enough reason to halt its US$4.8 billion deal to buy the internet company.

• Yahoo may have allowed US government to search user emails

  Yahoo has reportedly searched through all of its users' incoming emails with a secret software program that's designed to ferret out information for U.S. government agencies.

• Yahoo calls report of secret email scanning 'misleading'

  Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program "misleading," and said no such system exists.

• Here's what you should know, and do, about the Yahoo breach

  Yahoo's announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale -- it's the largest data breach ever -- and the potential security implications for users.