Marissa Mayer to quite Google and join Yahoo

"Yahoo!  has appointed Marissa Mayer as President and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors effective July 17, 2012," the company confirmed in a rather dry statement.

Mayer was one of the earliest employees with Google, joining the Internet giant in 1999 and becoming the company’s 20th employee.Until recently Mayer was responsible for Local, Maps, and Location Services for Google, however the 37-year-old's credentials are much better than that, having been Google's 20th employee and largely responsible for the development of its flagship search product and iconic homepage for more than 10 years after joining Google in 1999. 

Expect Yahoo to start acting a lot more like Google in the future, focusing on technological innovation rather than content. However whether Mayer has the ability to lift the ailing media company from the steady decline it has been experiencing for some time is yet to be seen. 

Mayer has been appointed as CEO at this time when company has to deal with certain security issues like the yahoo password dumb released by D33Ds group's hackers recently.

The current interim CEO Ross Levinsohn was the favourite for the role. 

Mayer starts work on Tuesday.

Microsoft to launch Windows 8 on October 26

Microsoft fan and tech savvy will have to wait till October 28 as the company finally plans to launch the upcoming Windows 8 operating system on October 26.The launch date of the company’s upcoming operating system was revealed by Steven Sinofsky president of the Windows division at Microsoft.This is the first time Microsoft has announced a date for the arrival of its next Windows OS.
Windows 8 is its next-generation ,touch friendly operating system tailored for a world shifting from personal computers to smartphones and tablets.Windows 8 will be available in 109 languages across 231 markets worldwide.


As an upgrade for users of Windows XP, Vista or 7, Windows will cost $40. That's much less than Microsoft Corp. has charged for previous operating system upgrades. People who bought a Windows 7 computer on June 2 or later can upgrade for $15.

Download yahoo hacked passwords by D33Ds Hackers.

Recently a group of hacker called D33Ds company released a large 17MB dump from yahoo server.The dump includes the information from the MySQL database containing email address and passwords of over 450K users.
They released the dump under the name “censored” , but they neglected to clear the HOSTNAME field in the MySQL information, exposing the server name: dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com.
To check whether you are hacked or not visit following link below
http://dazzlepod.com/yahoo/

The following link has been made available by hackers to download the dumb file 
 http://d33ds.co/archive/yahoo-disclosure.txt


Meanwhile, Yahoo! has appointed ex-googler Marissa Mayer as its 3rd CEO in a span of one year. 37 year old Mayer joins Yahoo! at a time when the internet giant is struggling to regain its foothold as social websites like Facebook and Twitter grow.

D33Ds hackers released Yahoo user passwords in plain text.

Recently a group of hackers released the famous professional networking site  linkedin.com password hash world wide in a forum and at this time it was the yahoo! turn. A group of hacker called D33Ds company released a large 17MB dump from yahoo server.The dump includes the information from the MySQL database containing email address and passwords of over 450K users.
They released the dump under the name “censored” , but they neglected to clear the HOSTNAME field in the MySQL information, exposing the server name: dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com.


Top 10 passwords includes the following :
123456 = 1666
password = 780
welcome = 437
ninja = 333
abc123 = 250
123456789 = 222
12345678 = 208
sunshine = 205
princess = 202
qwerty = 172
and the other included the names of week,month,year like monday123,123feb or password2012,etc.
According to me the cause of this expose is the negligence of the internet users about the importance of their password and also the yahoo servers which are vulnerable to the SQL injection attack.


You can view the full list of passwords hacked and check for your password wheather it is hacked or not by link provided in below:
http://dazzlepod.com/yahoo/
If you are hacked, you are advised to change your password immediately if it is still in use elsewhere. For your privacy, do not enter your complete email in the search box. Try using the first part of your email instead, e.g. example instead of example@example.com.




Final Notes released by hacker
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"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness." - Jean Vanier


We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat. There have been many security
holes exploited in webservers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly. The subdomain and
vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage.

For your safety i have present my 10 tips to having better, more secure passwords.


Tip 1: Have a Variety of Characters
Tip 2: Know the Most Commonly Used Passwords
Tip 3: Use a Password Manager
Tip 4: Don't Reuse Passwords
Tip 5: Use a Password Generator


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