This is really just a news headline that really doesn't matter, or make any difference in the real world, who cares? the media just wants to make things seem bad so they can get some attention then on the back of that bad attention someone seeing an opportunity to save some money. Pathetic.
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
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Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#122One benefit of these incidents at Yahoo! is that they represent salient, clear examples of the cost of poor information security. CIOs and security directors will be able to point to this deal as evidence that poor security can have material impact on the business and destroy massive shareholder value, even years after the fact. A 6.5% intra-day dip sends a clear message. Even a CFO can now see that information secur…
Not giving the NSA root access to your servers and to everyone's data should also help.
To be fair it's a post Snowden world and it's clear everyone is doing this. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else who operates in the USA are giving the NSA everything.
If you care about your data you are basically only able to secure it if you host it yourself.
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not giving the NSA root access to your servers and to everyone's data should also help.
To be fair it's a post Snowden world and it's clear everyone is doing this. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else who operates in the USA are giving the NSA everything. If you care about your data you are basically only able to secure it if you host it yourself.
or how about ... "if you care about your data, don't put it on the Internet. If you do, use E2E encryption."
It's important that people also don't fall into the illusion that their Infosec skills can match that of google/apple engineers. These guys are some of the best there is.
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not giving the NSA root access to your servers and to everyone's data should also help.
To be fair it's a post Snowden world and it's clear everyone is doing this. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else who operates in the USA are giving the NSA everything. If you care about your data you are basically only able to secure it if you host it yourself.
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Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#125This is really just a news headline that really doesn't matter, or make any difference in the real world, who cares? the media just wants to make things seem bad so they can get some attention then on the back of that bad attention someone seeing an opportunity to save some money. Pathetic.
A giant security breach leading to a potentially failed acquisition doesn't matter in a community of people focused on technology businesses? Nice one-word emotion signalling at the end, there.
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps there's scope for a tumblr mirror, which could eventually take over from real-tumblr (and allow the blog owners to continue blogging) in the event that real-tumblr goes all geocities.
I feel like that would be a TOS violation.
We don't know whether Tumblr's porn content is legal. There's absolutely no way a risk department would allow hosting massive porn pictures of potentially underage volunteers (or not-so-volunteers), let alone acquire a company who does that as a job, or copy that content over for free. Porn ventures use specific advertising platforms, payment methods and insurances.
I must be wrong, since Yahoo believes Tumblr increases its worth.
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#127One benefit of these incidents at Yahoo! is that they represent salient, clear examples of the cost of poor information security. CIOs and security directors will be able to point to this deal as evidence that poor security can have material impact on the business and destroy massive shareholder value, even years after the fact. A 6.5% intra-day dip sends a clear message. Even a CFO can now see that information secur…
This is a really important point. Yahoo!'s troubles help make a quantitative point to people who care only about money. Having been in the role of advocating investing in security the typical questions are; * "Will the product run faster?", * "Will the customers get better service?", * "Will someone choose us over a competitor because of this?" Generally 'no', 'no', and 'hard to quantify' so the answer to the funding…
Don't quantify security. Just do it.
If people ask, just doing my day job'
edit: care to explain the downvotes?
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#128Yahoo controls 8% of search traffic and costs $4bn. Google controls 64% of search traffic and costs $558bn. That's a 17-fold difference in the price for 1% of the traffic. Even more if you take US search traffic only (to exclude Yahoo Japan). Verizon can get rid of the costly parts of Yahoo (mostly its media business) and have its own small Google to make cash. That was $1.8bn per year in 2015, while Yahoo's overall…
Google has lots of platforms and products. It controls ads delivery up to the OS and the browser.
Whatever yahoo has in comparison is negligible.
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#129One benefit of these incidents at Yahoo! is that they represent salient, clear examples of the cost of poor information security. CIOs and security directors will be able to point to this deal as evidence that poor security can have material impact on the business and destroy massive shareholder value, even years after the fact. A 6.5% intra-day dip sends a clear message. Even a CFO can now see that information secur…
Currently, Yahoo's only raison d'etre is to serve as a warning to others.
I remember this as a "Demotivational" poster, with a picture of the Titanic....
Re: Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
#130One benefit of these incidents at Yahoo! is that they represent salient, clear examples of the cost of poor information security. CIOs and security directors will be able to point to this deal as evidence that poor security can have material impact on the business and destroy massive shareholder value, even years after the fact. A 6.5% intra-day dip sends a clear message. Even a CFO can now see that information secur…
Not giving the NSA root access to your servers and to everyone's data should also help.
Who gave the NSA root access to their servers?