My apologies to folks who received an email or tweet (via Posterous autopost) from me overnight, sending them to a spammy phishing site. My old Yahoo! email account has been caught up in Y!'s current rounds of hacks.
Users of Yahoo Mail are suffering from persistent hacking attempts, says The Next Web. The Internet firm, the third largest provider of email, behind Microsoft and Google, has plugged two security holes already, but has not managed to fix the problem.
While some holders of compromised accounts say that they clicked on an infected link--a fake MSNBC page, apparently--many claim that the first they knew of being hacked was when people in their contacts lists said they had received dodgy emails from them.
Yep, that's exactly what happened to me. If it continues, now will test Marissa's mettle... http://www.fastcompany.com/3006724/creative-conversations/why-cant-persistent...