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Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins (tumblr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A revamp of Yahoo Mail includes a new feature which eliminates the password from the sign-in process on mobile platforms, instead relying on the user's phone number as a token of authenticity. Notification-based sign-ins are a network-heavy commitment used with less frequency during some online banking authentication procedures, and by Google and others in specific events such as the need for a password reset. But Yahoo is well-motivated to improve security after a 2014 data breach led to a mass-reset of passwords for affected users.
Well they'll need to juggle a lot of numbers...
You can switch to a new phone number by answering the security questions.
You'd be surprised how many people can't answer the security questions they set up themselves.
Not me! My security question is: "What is your security question?"
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .