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Yahoo! Blocked Hackers By Changing Email Text
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posted by justfred
on Thursday July 18, @08:23AM
from the yahoo-dictionary dept.
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Yahoo! admitted Wednesday that the company changed the text of emails to prevent hackers from spreading computer viruses. For example, if you typed "mocha," Yahoo! software changed it to "espresso." If you typed "eval," the recipient read "review" (which also means that if you typed "evaluate," the recipient received "reviewuate."). Yahoo! altered words that are commands in the JavaScript computer language, which hackers may intercept to launch viruses. A test message sent yesterday, however, transmitted the words "evaluate" and "mocha" with no changes. Yahoo! has not yet commented whether it has changed company practices. For a full story, check out Reuters.
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