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Congress is afraid to use G-mail or Yahoo Mail due to 'security concerns', but they give the NSA cart blanch to infect everyone else's phones, tablets and computers with back door spook snoop-ware. Why is this not a surprise?

Lion

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: While the odd employees might click on a phishing scam within
: their yahoo or gmail account, I'd say the vast majority of
: malware, ransomware etc comes from them surfing 'porn'
: sites while at work. Over 87% of porn sites are infected
: with malware.

: Also note that it is not Gmail or Yahoo that is infecting the

: computers. It is 'people' who are clicking on junk/spam
: mail links or phishing emails with attachments.

: Snip

: Capitol Hill became the latest victim of ransomware attacks.
: They were facing constant pop-ups, click ads, resulting it
: into opening malicious files and gaining control of the
: desktop. Attacks were coming through YahooMail, Gmail
: reported the staff members.

: According to Gizmodo report, the support team issued a
: notification to all House staff at the end of April,
: explaining that it has noticed a marked increase in such
: attempts to lock users out of their files through Web-based
: email services like Yahoo Mail and Gmail. As a result, it’s
: blocked access to it until further notice.

: According to a congressional staffe, at least one of the
: ransomware attacks was successful. Once the computer was
: affected, House IT was able to remotely shut down the
: machine within 20 minutes. The staffer eventually had to
: reformat their computer.

: Congress House’s Tech Desk urged staff and said, “Please do
: your part to help us address this recent attack and protect
: the House Network going forward by following proper cyber
: practices at all times. Phishing e-mails can look very
: legitimate and appear to come from known senders. Be very
: careful about clicking on 'attachments' or 'links' in
: e-mails, particularly when you are using non-House e-mail
: systems.”

: YahooMail showed their concern and stated, “We take the
: security of our users very seriously, and we’re
: collaborating closely with House IT staff to ensure that
: they have the right solutions in place to best protect
: their accounts.”

:
: http://techstory.in/11052016-congress-bans-yahoo-mail-failure-deal-phishing-malaware/