So as you query for something in your inbox, not only will it surface messages, but documents, calendar events, contacts you might have from more than 200 email providers, files from other linked services (which could soon include Flickr and Amazon Cloud - Google Drive and Dropbox are already supported), and now photos from your mobile device. But the email service’s machine learning technology adds context around what you’re looking for. Some might question the usefulness of syncing because if you take a photo on your phone, it’s already easy enough to email it to friends using the Yahoo Mail app. Now by enabling photo upload, a user’s photos will be available on desktop automatically,” Albers said. “Gone are the days of having to upload a photo to the cloud or email it to yourself in order to share it with friends. Yahoo said that photos are only visible to you and those you share them with syncing can be disabled and shared photos deleted in Yahoo without affecting your phone’s camera roll. As many incidents have shown, a person’s email account can be a gateway for further compromises, because it can be used to reset the password for the user’s accounts on other websites.Log into your Yahoo Mail iOS or Android app, select Settings > Photo upload, and then toggle the “Upload photos” feature to begin. In addition, if a phone is lost or left unsupervised, it could be used to generate a password for the phone owner’s Yahoo email account. “It can only be a good thing that a well-known brand in the technology field is seeking different ways to revamp the password.”
The ability to intercept, steal and hide text messages is common for mobile malware, particularly for threats that target online banking users who often receive transaction and other authorization codes via SMS. Malware on your phone could be used to grab those SMS messages, and then have full access to your account.” “While Yahoo is lifting the burden of remembering a password, they are maintaining a single target for compromise: your SMS messages. “Two-factor authentication is more secure because it requires an attacker to compromise more than a single piece of information to be successful,” said Tim Erlin, director of product management at security firm Tripwire, via email.
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