This might sound obvious, but if you're like a lot of people, you might not use Yahoo Mail as your primary email account. Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 ...

NEW YORK - The latest hack impacting more than one billion Yahoo accounts has users all over the world worried about how to protect their digital privacy. News that the struggling internet company was ...

FILE - This Jan. 14, 2015 file photo shows Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo's massive breach to the internet icon, information ...

Can't remember your password? There's a solution for that. (Photo: Getty) Forgetting your password is a serious lesson in learning to cope with frustration. Whether you just want to buy something ...

Yahoo is trying to phase out passwords with an update to its mobile application for its email service. The renovated app released Thursday for iPhones and Android devices will include an option called ...

In September, Yahoo disclosed that at least a half billion Yahoo accounts were jeopardized by hackers. Names, email addresses, passwords, telephone numbers, dates of birth, security questions and ...

Many readers are asking what they should be doing in response to Yahoo‘s disclosure Wednesday that a billion of its user accounts were hacked. Here are a few suggestions and pointers, fashioned into a ...

Last night the news broke that Yahoo had a security breach and 435,000 usernames and passwords had been hacked. Particularly troubling? The login credentials are in plaintext, not even encrypted. The ...

Yahoo just confirmed that “information associated with at least 500 million user accounts (about half of the platform’s user base) was stolen” from the company in 2014, including “names, email ...

Last week’s Yahoo hack — the largest breach of user account data in history — has focussed attention once again on the password’s inherent vulnerabilities. And some cybersecurity experts say we might ...

Yahoo is trying something new: telling its users to bypass a password entirely in favor of a smartphone app through which a user grants access when a login is attempted. This seems like, in the words ...

Yahoo's new email app includes password-free option, ability to connect with rival services FILE - This Jan. 14, 2015 photo shows a sign outside Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo is ...