{"id":2516,"date":"2007-08-25T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/yahoo-sign-in-seal-fights-password-theft-and-phishing\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:43:15","slug":"yahoo-sign-in-seal-fights-password-theft-and-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/yahoo-sign-in-seal-fights-password-theft-and-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Sign-in Seal Fights Password Theft and Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you login to Yahoo! mail, how do you identify that it is not a phishing site or fake site trying for password theft? The best way to fight spoofed sites is to use  a <strong>Yahoo! Sign-in Seal<\/strong> that will display every time you are on a legitimate Yahoo! sign in page.<\/p>\n<p>Create personalized Yahoo! sign-in seals and easily fight password theft. Your sign-in seal will be visible whenever you sign into Yahoo! and if your sign-in seal is not there, it&#8217;s likely to be a spoof page created by a phisher. This security seal is is <strong>linked to your computer and not Yahoo! ID<\/strong>, so you need to create a Yahoo! Sign-in Seal for each computer you use.<\/p>\n<p>Choose any image, any text or your favorite color to create a unique seal in minutes, then inform all computer users of this authentic seal to identify <strong>genuine Yahoo! sign-in pages<\/strong> and avoid phishing scams.<\/p>\n<p>Just for example, I created a sign in seal using text &#8220;PC&#8221; and chose an orange color. Now whenever I am on a genuine Yahoo! sign-in page, I see this logo!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/yahoo-seal.gif\" alt=\"Yahoo! Sign-in Seal\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if you don&#8217;t see your sign-in seal?<\/strong> Of course you could be on a fraudulent site, but it is also possible someone else using your computer may have deleted or changed your seal, your computer cookies may have been deleted, or you&#8217;re using a partner or international Yahoo! site.<\/p>\n<p>Create your Yahoo! sign-in seal today and add security to your Yahoo! account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you login to Yahoo! mail, how do you identify that it is not a phishing site or fake site&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}