If Your Account is Under Attacked By Government Hacker Yahoo Will Let You Know

After Facebook, Google and Twitter, Yahoo also will let you know if your yahoo account is under attacked or being targeted by government-backed hackers. Marissa Mayer ‘s Yahoo announced this on its blog; all state-sponsored attacks will follow by Yahoo and let their users know…

Rachel KowalskiCybersecurity Analyst

24 Dec 20151 min read

All these companies agree on one think that they are committed to protecting users data or security all the time. Tim Cook also denied giving an access to the cell phones.

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These action of the companies might look like wrong if you consider terrorist activities, and they are using smartphones as a communications method also, but bad guys always find a way to communicate with each other. Terrorist were using game consoles to speak with each other and highly possible they are using other ways to communicate. The government just want to show the voters they are trying to do something but technology companies does not let then fight with criminal activities. Politicians need to figure it out the real solution for any illegal activities.

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Rachel Kowalski

Cybersecurity Analyst

Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.

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