Yahoo! has revealed that effective last week it has started encrypting all data on its servers in response to concerns over government surveillance practices. According to an article at Silicon Republic, "Yahoo! revealed the move on its official blog and promises all its current products should be free from the prying eyes of governments and hackers alike." Over the coming months the firm plans additional measures, including HSTS, Perfect Forward Secrecy and Certificate Transparency, the article noted. "One of our biggest areas of focus in the coming months is to work with and encourage thousands of our partners across all of Yahoo!'s hundreds of global properties to make sure that any data that is running on our network is secure," Alex Stamos, Yahoo!'s chief information security officer wrote in the blog post.
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