Yahoo has revealed that it has detected a “coordinated effort” to break into accounts belonging to Yahoo Mail users, using stolen username and password details.

Do you know the golden rules for safer passwords?

Breathe a small sigh of relief. Yahoo has finally caught up with competing major webmail providers, and turned on HTTPS by default.

Seriously, it will be good to see Yahoo finally enable SSL/HTTPS for all its webmail users. It’s just a shame that they have dragged their feet so much about doing it.