ONE BILLION YAHOO ACCOUNTS HACKED

Got home last night and tuned to CNN and here is the headline I saw "ONE BILLION YAHOO ACCOUNTS HACKED" I had to look closely to see if that was "M" as in Million but its actually "B" as in Billion! Mehn... That's huge, had to quickly snap my TV screen with my phone!
ONE BILLION YAHOO ACCOUNTS HACKED

Anyways here are some tips for every yahoo mail user;

1. First, if you get an email saying your Yahoo account may have been hacked and to click this link to re-secure your account, it's bogus. 

Yahoo's official, "you're screwed" emails have the subject line: "Important Security Information for Yahoo Users", anything else is just a phishing scam.

2. you must change your Yahoo account password on Yahoo services such as Yahoo Mail or Flickr. To do this, go to your Yahoo account page. Once there, go to Account 

Info and click on Account security. Then, on that page, choose Change password. While you're at it, you should turn on two-step verification

3. If you, as many people do, use the same password for multiple accounts, stop that. You're just asking to be hacked. If someone breaks into any of your accounts, lazy hackers can try your most common user name or email with that known password on multiple systems. To be safe, you must use a unique password for every site. Sure it may be difficult to remember all the unique password, then use a password manager such as LastPass, Google Smart Lock, 1Password, or RoboForm. They'll make your online life much more secure and easier.

Finally... be your own online security guard by doing little things like using strong passwords and avoid using your names as passwords which is the most common and daily mistake I have observed in the course of my IT career so far.

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