Yahoo Mail finally turns on SSL

Long a laggard when it comes to site security, Yahoo announces that it will activate SSL for all Yahoo Mail at the beginning of next year.




Years after Microsoft, Google, and many others made Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security the standard for their Web mail systems, Yahoo says that it too will modernize Yahoo Mail's security.
SSL is a cryptographic protocol that encrypts Web mail as it travels between Yahoo's servers and your computer's browser. Yahoo says that it will activate the protection for all Yahoo Mail users on January 8, 2014, a full year after it first offered SSL protection as an option that users had to activate on their own, reports the Washington Post.