★ Huge Yahoo! authentication security bug

(Article originally published in French on Clubic.com)

A huge bug has been discovered in Yahoo! authentication mechanism affecting third party applications, even those created by Yahoo!

A member of the Yahoo! Mail Group has discovered that people having connected third party applications may have a problem if they lose their smartphone. Indeed, despite what Yahoo says, changing the password will not be enough. This will not totally revok access to those third party applications.

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