The approximately 300 hackers that swept onto the firm’s campus in Sunnyvale, California, had the first chance to tinker with the inner workings of Yahoo online offerings such as its globally popular free email. Yahoo earlier in the week outlined a shift to an “Open Strategy†that it believes will jazz-up the website and lead to meshing offerings from hot online properties such as Amazon and iTunes with its web pages. Continued and Source:-- Here
So basically they invite hackers to hack their systems? aka "white hat" hacking? Do they get paid? if so i am there lol (I wish i lived in ca) if not can you hmm explain
Sounds like they are going to open their whole site up to hackers meaning your emails are unsafe. Yahoo sucks.
Well they benefit them by letting them know the bugs in their website.. Good step for their security!
Those guys are good guys. Professional hackers. To see if there are any cracks in the programming. So all of us are safe. They hired those hackers.
I heard an old Chinese story (not sure if it's from China or another country). A landlord just built a castle, and didn't want any thief to break in and steal stuffs. So he created a contest for thieves and dared them to break in. The winner would have a big prize. Then several thieves did succeed in breaking in. He handed them the prize, but also sent secret assassins to kill them all, so that no one could ever break in his castle again. Sounds familiar right? Maybe Yahoo's doing the same thing lol. Just kidding.
they are doing it for security purposes. If the hackers find an opening they tell them and than they make the security stronger so no one can hack it
i'll be the first One who get Invitation there . i think yahoo dont need H4ck3r to become stronger . u can see Google , nobody can hacked it becuz a lot of Server and Auto Server changer everytime :d just they Need human Power and enought money and some work With Gov .......etc
Or they can say whoops and hide it from Yahoo so later down the road they can plan a hostile takeover Pretty smart though, let the hackers attack you full force, then fix all the problems.
All information - www.rtsshome.com That's all information i've been able to collect. If i know more , i will post it here.
Did anyone actually read the article? They were using the word hacking as in programming. It was not referring to opening up Yahoo to test its security. Here's a quote of some of the things that were done at this Hackathon: --------- "Software creations included a “Ganzbot†robot that reads people news, weather, Twitter messages or other information streamed to their home pages by automated delivery mechanisms known as “feeds.†An Icarus.tv hack served up music videos in online radio style, scouring the Internet and fetching performances that promise to fit people’s tastes." --------- The event was to encourage innovation to help it become a player again after the failed Microsoft deal.
forget yahoo just GoogLe iT! google never got hacked and their security is 1000X of yahoo,so why should i care about yahoo ?
I stopped Hacking For 2 year ago and i don't know whats up and last news by the way .... i think Google is more security then Yahoo . be cuz i was use Metasploit ( by HDMoore ) and it's so good for hacking and rooting the Server . ... and i was want to try it with google but i found hard thing . also i was try with Botnet ....etc i think i have talk much and i can't say more then that ( it's my black year lol ) personally i choose google
I think a lot of you don't understand the meaning of the term hacker. Its not meant to be malicious when used like this, these guys are just penetration testers trying to help find problems.
'hacker' was never a malicious term at all until the media distorted it. either way, you can hack code or hack systems. both have benefits. you can't secure something if you don't know how it breaks. besides, most exploits are caused by poor quality coding and a lack of attention to basic details. metasploit is a handy tool, but i've never used it personally (played around with it, never actually put it to use). social engineering is way more effective for getting good information. what am i saying? lol...