Collaborate Disseminate
“We have decided to close down our email business,” Verizon has announced — in a move which affects 4.5 million accounts. Slashdot reader tomservo84 writes:
Strangely enough, I didn’t find out about this from Verizon, itself, but SiriusXM, who sent m… Continue reading Verizon.net ‘Gets Out Of The Email Business’
Editors of DMOZ, a human-curated web directory say the “community is understandably devastated.” Continue reading AOL Is Mysteriously Shutting Down the 19-Year-Old Community That Inspired Wikipedia
Editors of DMOZ, a human-curated web directory say the “community is understandably devastated.” Continue reading AOL Is Mysteriously Shutting Down the 19-Year-Old Community That Inspired Wikipedia
While serving as Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence routinely used his personal AOL email account to conduct government business.
Surprise! It was hacked.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Mike Pence used personal AOL account for government business as Indiana governor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Vice President Mike Pence used a personal AOL email account to conduct sensitive state business — including issues related to homeland security — as the governor of Indiana, according to a report fr… Continue reading Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business — and It Got Hacked
As a candidate, Trump VP castigated Clinton for use of a private e-mail server. Continue reading Mike Pence used an AOL e-mail account for state business and it got hacked
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: AOL announced today that it is starting to cut off third-party app access to its Instant Messenger service. As first noticed by ArsTechnica, AOL began notifying users of at least one third-party app, Ad… Continue reading AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM
Michael A. Persaud, a California man profiled in a Nov. 2014 KrebsOnSecurity story about a junk email purveyor tagged as one of the World’s Top 10 Worst Spammers, was indicted this week on federal wire fraud charges tied to an alleged spamming operation. Continue reading ‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud
That’s a billion with a b—and is separate from the breach “cleared” in September. Continue reading Yahoo reveals 1 billion more accounts exposed, and some code may have been stolen
According to a report from Bloomberg, AOL is firing as many as 500 employees as part of a restructuring plan to focus on mobile, video and data. The move comes a year after Verizon acquired the company for $4.4 billion. Bloomberg reports: The layoffs a… Continue reading AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video