Facebook joins Yahoo to prevent old mailboxes from stealing passwords

NetEase Science and technology news October 24, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Facebook has joined hands with Yahoo to launch a new e-mail security measures, To avoid the abandonment of old mailboxes used by others, as a way to log into a series of other accounts.

Yahoo had previously proposed to reuse those who have been abandoned, no one to use the e-mail, which attracted a lot of criticism. When a user uses a Yahoo mailbox as a registration name for a Web site (such as Facebook), the mailbox becomes a way to retrieve the password. If the user no longer uses the Yahoo mailbox, the person with ulterior motives can obtain this mailbox, then steals the Facebook account by the way of the password retrieve.

Now Facebook and Yahoo have already offered a solution. Based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMPT), Facebook will create a new mail standard Rrvs. Facebook will stamp a timestamp on the message that the password was retrieved, showing the time the Yahoo mailbox was last used properly. If the account is already vulnerable after that time, Facebook will give up the message to retrieve the password and avoid the account falling into the wrong hands. West)