The new Mail also connects to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to add photos and create 'contact cards' with email, telephone and social media information for contacts. In addition to Account Key verification, Yahoo executives announced a revamped version of Yahoo Mail that allows users to connect with, manage and search Outlook, Hotmail and AOL email accounts while signed in to their Yahoo account. They're so ingrained in everything we do from banking to email to shopping, you name it,' Narang said. 'I think passwords are going to be around for a little while, I don't think they're going away as soon as we'd like them to. After months of having to sign out of one account to sign into another I signed out and now can not access my account. He also expressed doubts that most users will let passwords die easily and encouraged widespread adoption of password management tools until a new verification method replaces them for good. Satnam Narang, a security manager with Symantec, called the approach 'a step above a password' but said it still falls short of the golden standard of what's known as two-factor authentication, which requires users to confirm their identify with two different pieces of information.

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