Why I suggest not using Yahoo email

A lot of my clients use Yahoo email, but now is the time for you to change.

Last year there was a large security breach at Yahoo email,  details here.

Unfortunately things have gotten worse.

In the last 3 months it has become clear that there is a major exploit in Yahoo emails.   The flaw with Yahoo's coding allowed the email and password on a Yahoo email account to be compromised, see the report from TNW.  

The flaw appears to be fixed, but at what cost? I receive about one hacked email a week from different Yahoo users, up from once a month end of last year.

My suggestion is to move from Yahoo email to another provider, such as gmail or Outlook.com.  With that being said, here is a great tutorial from How To Geek on switching you webmail provider.

One other option is to start to reduce your chances at getting spammed by taking some proactive action to ensure you are less vulnerable.   Allspammedup.com  has another great listing of what not to do, in short, 

1. Stop giving out your email address on social networks

2. Stop listing your email address on your personal or company website

3. Stop replying to spam emails

4. Stop using your good email address to register online

5. Being an educated user

You can find the whole list here.