Sep 22 500 million Yahoo accounts hit by hackers, company confirms By Kulsoom Khan Yahoo stated the stolen information may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and passwords. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch 4:19 What does Yahoo’s downsizing mean for the tech giant’s future? By PBS News Hour Tech giant Yahoo has long struggled to define a strategy to satisfy investors, consumers and the markets. On Tuesday, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company would consider offers for buying its core assets and would be laying off 15… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 6:10 Will Yahoo, Twitter find success in rebooting business? By PBS News Hour Yahoo is working on streamlining its strategy, while over at Twitter there's a new permanent CEO. What’s making these tech giants adjust how they do business? Hari Sreenivasan talks with Jon Kelly of Vanity Fair. Continue watching
Jul 24 Could Facebook or Twitter stop the next terrorist attack? By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. Continue reading
Sep 12 U.S. threatened Yahoo with daily fine if it did not comply with data handover By Pete Yost, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Yahoo's free email service could have cost the company an extra quarter of a million dollars a day. The government called for the huge fine in 2008 if Yahoo didn't go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance… Continue reading
Apr 09 Watch Security bug Heartbleed could have provided key that unlocks personal online data By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 27 Watch Thursday, February 27, 2014 By PBS News Hour On our program Thursday, pro-Russian protesters seized the Crimean parliament, once Ukraine voted in a new prime minister. Also: We look at a refugee camp in Syria struggling to receive humanitarian aid, President Barack Obama’s new initiative for young men… Continue watching
Feb 27 Watch Report suggests U.K. spies collected images from Yahoo webcam chats with NSA help By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch Tech titans visit White House to talk surveillance reform Tech titans visit White House to press case for surveillance reform… Continue watching
Oct 31 Watch Thursday, October 31, 2013 Documents leaked claim the NSA tapped into Google and Yahoo fiber-optic cables. Continue watching