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Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Postby PinkDalek » June 11th, 2018, 1:03 pm

I know that there are one or two regulars here who still access the Yahoo Finance Portfolio (and it is for this reason I'm posting here, rather than at Financial Software - Discussion).

When I access https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/portfolios?bypass=true I see a padlock and clicking on that tells me my connection to the server is encrypted.

However, if I access an individual Portfolio (such as here, if this works https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/portfolio/p_1/view/view_0) I see a warning exclamation mark next to a "Not Secure". Clicking there I'm told some of the page is not encrypted "which makes it possible for others to see or change information you share with this site".

If of relevance, I'm using Microsoft Edge on this PC.

Do others receive this warning and is it something one should be concerned about?

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Re: Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Postby Breelander » June 11th, 2018, 6:08 pm

PinkDalek wrote:... if I access an individual Portfolio (such as here, if this works https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/portfolio/p_1/view/view_0) I see a warning exclamation mark next to a "Not Secure". Clicking there I'm told some of the page is not encrypted "which makes it possible for others to see or change information you share with this site".

If of relevance, I'm using Microsoft Edge on this PC.

Do others receive this warning and is it something one should be concerned about?


I had to set up a portfolio to test this (I already have a Yahoo sign-in, so wasn't much work to do). I don't get a warning in IE, but I can see that while the sign-in pages and the page listing my portfolios https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/portfolios is secure, the padlock disappears when viewing any individual portfolio.

Viewing the same portfolio in Edge I do see the "(i) Not secure" to the left of the address (it's actually an i for information rather than a !). Should you worry? Well, the only information that could be intercepted would be the share names, the quantity held and their prices. You don't actually type in anything sensitive on this page, like a password or such. Probably not a big security risk then.

As a comparison I've just looked at my usual Digital Look portfolio in both IE and Edge. That isn't encrypted either. Interestingly, Edge just shows the (i) for DL. It seems that it only adds the 'not secure' warning if the address concerned is https but not encrypted, the DL page is http so can't be encrypted.

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Re: Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Postby PinkDalek » June 11th, 2018, 6:35 pm

Breelander wrote: … Viewing the same portfolio in Edge I do see the "(i) Not secure" to the left of the address (it's actually an i for information rather than a !). Should you worry? Well, the only information that could be intercepted would be the share names, the quantity held and their prices. You don't actually type in anything sensitive on this page, like a password or such. Probably not a big security risk then. …



Many thanks for looking, I'll probably carry on regardless.

I get similar "i"s (not exclamation marks as you correctly told me) on individual Yahoo Mail emails ...

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Re: Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Postby Breelander » June 11th, 2018, 7:07 pm

PinkDalek wrote: I get similar "i"s (not exclamation marks as you correctly told me) on individual Yahoo Mail emails ...


Now you come to mention it, so do I for some (but not all) emails. In Firefox (which is the browser I prefer for my email) I get a yellow warning triangle on the padlock. Clicking on it gets the explanation 'Parts of this page are not secure (such as images)'.

A purely text email has a green padlock, it's just emails with other content (mainly images) that get the yellow warning, such as newsletters from the BBC.

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Re: Yahoo Finance Portfolio - Not Secure?

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Postby xeny » June 13th, 2018, 1:19 pm

Breelander wrote:A purely text email has a green padlock, it's just emails with other content (mainly images) that get the yellow warning, such as newsletters from the BBC.


I'd suspect that those newsletters are pulling in images from BBC servers over an insecure connection, but the browser isn't in a position to judge that that isn't a security concern.


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