According to the latest report by Yahoo!, who recently suffered a wave of attacks aimed at security vulnerabilities of a system server company, causing more than 453,000 user login accounts leaked.
According to security firm TrustedSec predictions, Server system contains subdomains of Yahoo! Voice is the heart of this attack with the database account leaks up to 453,492. Server systems by Yahoo! Voice formerly of Associated Content was subsequently acquired by Yahoo! in May 2010 and is integrated into the product in December 2011.
The amount of information the account and password are leaked each Yahoo! not only, but also all other email services such as Gmail, AOL, ...
The hackers had used SQL Injection as a tool to attack the receiving account information and passwords, to overload the servers have a poor level of security through the commands on the DATABASE to retrieve the account information of the user in the server.
However, the hackers responsible for the attack was not aimed at bad to take advantage of information that just to stole given to alert Yahoo! of the lack of security in this important resource.
According to hacker group, this is not a threat, instead they hope the parties are responsible for the management of the security domain can realize ring alerts. There are so many security vulnerabilities in web servers owned by Yahoo! is likely to cause much more severe attacks.
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