http://blog.threatfire.com/2008/09/nominees-yahoo-account-hacked.html ThreatFire™ AntiVirus protects when others can't Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.threatfire.com/2008/09/nominees-yahoo-account-hacked.html/comment-page-1#comment-61 Robotbaby Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:49:00 +0000 http://newblog.threatfire.com/2008/09/nominees-yahoo-account-hacked/#comment-61 It looks like the hackers got the password by answering the"security questions" that Yahoo asks when you forget your password. Unfortunately, all the answers were publicly available, such as her zip code, where she met her husband, etc. <br/>Security by obscurity doesn't work once you become famous. It looks like the hackers got the password by answering the”security questions” that Yahoo asks when you forget your password. Unfortunately, all the answers were publicly available, such as her zip code, where she met her husband, etc.
Security by obscurity doesn’t work once you become famous.

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