Below is the notice from yahoo regarding the recent data breach.

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NOTICE OF DATA BREACH

Dear Yahoo user,

We are writing to inform you about a data security issue that may involve your Yahoo account information. We have taken steps to secure your account and are working closely with law enforcement.

What happened?

In November 2016, law enforcement provided Yahoo with data files which a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. We analysed this data with the assistance of external forensic experts and found that it appears to be Yahoo user data. Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe that an unauthorised third party stole data associated with a broader set of user accounts in August 2013, including yours. We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. We believe that this incident is likely distinct from the one that we disclosed on 22 September 2016.

What information was involved?

The stolen user account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Not all of these data elements may have been present for your account. The investigation indicates that the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text form, payment card data or bank account information. Payment card data and bank account information are not stored on the system that we believe was affected.

What we’re doing

We are taking action to protect our users:

We are requiring potentially affected users to change their passwords.
We invalidated unencrypted security questions and answers so that they cannot be used to access an account.
We are constantly enhancing our safeguards and systems that detect and prevent unauthorised access to user accounts.

What you can do

We encourage you to follow these security recommendations:

Change your passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account.
Review all of your accounts for suspicious activity.
Be cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for your personal information or refer you to a web page asking for personal information.
Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails.
In addition, please consider using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password on Yahoo altogether.

For more information

For more information about this issue and our security resources, please visit the Yahoo Account security issues FAQs page available here   Protecting your information is important to us and we are constantly working to strengthen our defences.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Lord
Chief Information Security Officer
Yahoo

OneDrive for Business gives you access to your files, no matter what device you have. Fully synchronize your data between Windows and Mac, Android and Apple devices.

Including a huge 1TB of storage… Contact JP IT Solutions to get you set up.

Here are a few great features of OneDrive For Business

Advanced Sharing outside Your Organization

OneDrive for Business is all about sharing, but the latest updates give you greater control of how this is done. While it has always been possible to share documents straight from OneDrive for Business to external parties, there’s now even more flexibility. You can now set expiry dates on a shared link, and can add permissions to who that link can be shared with.

Selective Sync

If you’re using a device with a small hard drive, you won’t have space for all those enormous files stored in your personal OneDrive for Business folder. Avoid filling your local disk up by choosing which files and folders get synced to that specific device.

Save Email Attachments Straight to OneDrive for Business

A major User Experience frustration of Outlook, in the past, was that saving attachments from emails into SharePoint involved too many steps. This is no longer the case with OneDrive for Business; you can simply right click on an email attachment, in the Outlook Web App, and save it straight into your chosen folder.

Use Your Mobile Devices

Organizations that use OneDrive for Business have the unique ability to access it on Windows Phone, Android and even Apple devices. While these apps are designed to be on-the-go versions of their desktop and web-based counterparts and therefore may not be as powerful, they do have some inherent capabilities that are beneficial on these devices.
For instance, you’re able to pin folders on an Android home screen so you can quickly access commonly used documents. You can also set up a PIN or use iOS TouchID for enhanced security when accessing your OneDrive accounts.

Windows 10 have released their second big update.. But whats new?

Cortana Becomes a Whole Lot Smarter

Cortana can make proactive suggestions for you. If you receive email confirmation of flight details, it’ll add them to your calendar. If you promised David you’d send him that PowerPoint in an email, Cortana will know, and remind you to fulfill that commitment later on.

Windows 10 Interacts with Your Android Phone (or Windows Phone)

Cortana on Windows 10 will now integrate with the Cortana application on your Android or Windows smartphone. You’ll just need to install the Cortana Android app and sign in with the same Microsoft account on both devices. iPhone users are out of luck, as iOS is too locked down for Microsoft to integrate with it as deeply. This just works between Windows 10 PCs and Windows Mobile 10 phones running the latest software. It now works between Android phones and Windows 10 PCs, too–just be sure you have the latest Cortana app installed from Google Play.

The Start Menu Has Been Redesigned

Microsoft has changed the way Windows 10’s Start menu works. The “All Apps” option is now gone–you’ll just see a full list of installed applications at the left side of your Start menu. Your most frequently used and recently added applications will appear at the top of this list. It’ll show the three most recently added applications instead of a single one, and you can expand this list to see more applications sorted by when you installed them.

Important buttons like the File Explorer, Settings, and Shut Down buttons are now always located at the left side of the Start menu.

OneDrive users will be happy to know that they can now search all their files–both files on the PC and files stored online in OneDrive–from the Start menu.