Yahoo Mail's iPad app comes to M1-powered Mac

Yahoo has updated its Mail app for the iPhone and iPad to bring it to the M1 Mac. It gets features like Easy Unsubscribe, Quick Reply, and Custom Alerts. Easy Unsubscriber makes it easy to opt-out with a click; Quick Reply offers three short AI-powered suggestions depending on the email received; and Custom Alerts brings you notifications for emails you care about.

This update isn't available on Intel Macs, though, just the M1 machines. And the app is still listed as "Designed for iPad" on the Mac App Store listing.

Source: 9to5Mac

Yahoo Messenger has reached its end, officially shuts down on July 17th

Perhaps you’re like us who are hit by nostalgia of losing another one of the pioneers of the instant messaging segment. But with stiff competition coming from all sides and the inability of Yahoo to keep up, it doesn’t surprise us that Yahoo is finally closing the doors on Yahoo Messenger. It will officially shut down next month on July 17^th. It’s been 20 years since Messenger (originally Yahoo! Pager) launched and it offered not just instant messaging but file transfers and chat rooms as well. Desktop versions of the app have been shut down since mid-2016 but now all the remaining apps (those on iOS, Android, and web browser) will stop working, too.

After the shutdown, the apps will stop working and you won’t be able to sign in. If you want to extract your chat history, this option will be available for the next six months. You will need to sign into Yahoo’s downloader request site, verify your identity and then give your email address for where you want your chat log sent to. Yahoo doesn’t have an immediate replacement for Messenger outside out of its new chat service Squirrel, which launched in closed beta this May. Its focus is on group chats and it currently relies on invitations instead of going through your contacts to build the groups so we’re not sure if this is a worthy alternative. You’re rife with choice out there though so it might be high time you try something new.

Source: SlashGear

Got a Yahoo account? Then you’ve been breached

Remember that 2013 Yahoo breach that supposedly affected one billion accounts? Well, it got worse. Yahoo just announced that all its three billion user accounts have been affected by the hack. This hack exposed things like name, email address, hashed passwords, birthdays, phone numbers, and in some cases, “encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.” What the hackers weren’t able to obtain were the passwords in clear text as well as bank or credit card information linked to Yahoo accounts.

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Yahoo discloses a second major hack that affected over 1 billion accounts

Looks like the late 2014 hack of over 500 million Yahoo user accounts isn’t the only big security issue the company has to deal with. Yahoo just disclosed that more than one billion accounts might have been compromised by a hack of an unauthorized third party back in August 2013. The information stolen from the affected accounts include names, email addresses, birth dates, hashed passwords, encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers, as well as telephone numbers. The only information believed to not have been accessed by the hackers include clear text passwords, bank account information, and credit/debit card details.

The hack was discovered after law enforcement officials gave the company what looked like user data from an unknown source. Yahoo hasn’t been able to identify the specific breach yet but says it’s “likely” distinct from the 2014 hack. If you’re affected by this hack, Yahoo will be reaching out to you to help secure your account, including implementing mandatory password changes and invalidating unencrypted security questions and answers. Now, is probably the best time for you to change those passwords and use two-factor authentication when you can—not just with your Yahoo accounts but also double up on your other online accounts.

Source: MacRumors