Yandex News

ZDNet, Monday, February 15, 2021 10:53 AM Yandex, a Russian search engine, disclosed that it had caught an employee selling access to user email accounts. The company is now notifying the owners of the 4,887 compromised mailboxes.    Read the whole story at ZDNet » Source link

Web search engine Yandex is one of the most popular sites in Russia, having indexed several important Russian websites as well as allowing access to services for free, just like its American competitor, Google. The search engine, which also provides a free webmail service, recently caught an employee selling access to user email accounts, according to reports. The search engine has now begun informing each of the users who were affected by the employee’s actions – around 4,887 users’… Source link

Breach Occurred After System Admin Granted Unauthorized Access Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 13, 2021     Insiders have elevated access to an organization’s data Russian-Dutch multinational… Source link

Sumaira FH 26 minutes ago Sat 13th February 2021 | 01:44 PM Moscow is facing huge traffic jams at 11:00 a.m. local time (08:00 GMT) on Saturday because of the heavy snowfall, the traffic monitoring service of the Yandex company shows, putting the city’s traffic jams at 8 out of 10 MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 13th February, 2021) Moscow is facing huge traffic jams at 11:00 a.m. local time (08:00 GMT) on Saturday because of the heavy snowfall, the traffic… Source link

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) 21 minutes ago Sat 13th February 2021 | 10:30 AM MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 13th February, 2021) Moscow is facing huge traffic jams at 4:00 a.m. local time (01:00 GMT) on Saturday because of the heavy snowfall, the traffic monitoring service of the Yandex company shows. Yandex is currently putting the city’s traffic jams at 8 out of 10, while under normal conditions the streets of the Russian capital are absolutely free at… Source link

Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing and email service provider Yandex on Friday disclosed a data breach that compromised 4,887 email accounts of its users. The company blamed the incident on an unnamed employee who had been providing unauthorized access to the users’ mailboxes for personal gain. “The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support for the service,” Yandex said in a statement. The company said the… Source link

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) 11 minutes ago Sat 13th February 2021 | 06:20 AM MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 13th February, 2021) Moscow is facing huge traffic jams at 4:00 a.m. local time (01:00 GMT) on Saturday because of the heavy snowfall, the traffic monitoring service of the Yandex company shows. Yandex is currently putting the city’s traffic jams at 8 out of 10, while under normal conditions the streets of the Russian capital are absolutely free at this… Source link

Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company discovered the breach internally, during a routine check of its security team. The investigation revealed that the employee’s actions led to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. Sysadmin’s side business The employee was a system administrator who had access rights to provide technical support for… Source link

Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee’s name, said the person was “one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support” for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it’s now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887… Source link

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 12th February, 2021) Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday it had detected a data breach of 4,887 mailboxes orchestrated by the company‘s employee for personal gain. “Yandex… today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain,” the company said in a press… Source link