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230,016 Listings - DR (10/10)230,016 Listings - DR (10/10) CNN: Status of Hotmail privacy unclear - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.06/
Microsoft's Web-based e-mail service suffered a damaging blow to its integrity Monday when a security breach came to light that made it so anyone's Hotmail messages could be read. By Robin Lloyd.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotmail Bug, Still an Open Book? - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/09/15112
Security updates made last month to Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, may have failed to fix the problem. Not only that, but privacy watchdogs fear that the fix might actually help the company analyze their users' Web browsing habits. By Michael Stutz.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Did MS Dig Its Hotmail Hole? - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/08/21495
The Hotmail security hole may have been an intentional backdoor that Microsoft built into its system for maintenance purposes, security experts said. By James Glave.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotmail Open to Script Attacks - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/08/14617
Tom Cervenka, a Web programmer at Canadian Specialty Installations, spent last week working on some clever coding to send to his Hotmail account. It tells users account access has been timed out and that they need to re-enter their account and password information. By Michael Stutz.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotmail Accounts Exposed to All - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/08/21490
No sooner was one catastrophic security flaw closed Monday -- one that exposed millions of Hotmail accounts to prying eyes -- when another one appeared. By Declan McCullagh and Ja.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Stealing MS Passport's Wallet - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/11/48105
To correct serious security flaws, Microsoft on Friday disabled the virtual wallet function of its Passport service and has begun notifying partners about the vulnerabilities, the company has confirmed. By Brian McWilliams.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotmail Hackers: 'We Did It' - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/08/21503
A previously unknown group known as Hackers Unite has claimed responsibility for publicizing Hotmail's security breach, which Microsoft vehemently denied was the result of a backdoor oversight. By James Glave.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotel Hotmail - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/03/18617
As outages and service problems continue to plague Microsoft's free email service Hotmail, users who try to cancel their accounts may be in for a surprise: They can't. By Polly Sprenger.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Hotmail Has a Hole - and a Fix - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/02/10466
A Danish government official has reported a security hole that could allow unauthorized access to private accounts on Hotmail, the free Web email service. The company confirmed the hole exists and said Friday it would patch it within a day. By Michael Stutz.
639 Listings - DR (10/10)639 Listings - DR (10/10) Wired: Microsoft Rights Hotmail - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/08/14701
Microsoft has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Hotmail email program that tricks users into sending their usernames and passwords to an outside email address. By Michael Stutz.
188 Listings - DR (9/10)188 Listings - DR (9/10) CNET News.com: New security glitch for Hotmail - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-215046.html
Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them.
188 Listings - DR (9/10)188 Listings - DR (9/10) CNET News.com: Hotmail bug fix not a cure-all - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-214829.html
Microsoft's free Web-based email service Hotmail last night implemented a partial fix for a JavaScript security problem.
188 Listings - DR (9/10)188 Listings - DR (9/10) CNET News.com: Hotmail plugs security hole - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-214946.html
Microsoft's Hotmail today claimed victory over the security holes that have put the free email firm on the hot seat this week.
188 Listings - DR (9/10)188 Listings - DR (9/10) CNet: Cookies cap Hotmail security hole - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-223249.html
Hotmail said it will mandate the use of cookies to plug a newly discovered security hole.
258 Listings - DR (9/10)258 Listings - DR (9/10) ZDNet: Huge Hotmail security flaw reported - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515561.html
In potentially one of the largest security e-mail breaches ever, a Web site may have allowed people access to millions of private Hotmail accounts.
48 Listings - DR (8/10)48 Listings - DR (8/10) Techweb.com: Microsoft Hotmail Password Breach Exposed - http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980825S0006
Canadian engineers use JavaScript to show details of log-in information for the free e-mail service.
On Target - DR (7/10)On Target - DR (7/10) BetaNews: Hotmail Flaw Raises Questions Over XP Security - http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=998376822
Late Sunday night, Root Core, a group of computer security experts, published information exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft's popular service.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) BBC: Hotmail Hole Exposes E-mails - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1500703.stm
Details of how to read other people's messages have been posted on a website run by a group called Root Core and it has quickly spread to other sites and newsgroups.
215 Listings - DR (5/10)215 Listings - DR (5/10) Telepolis: Turning Tides - http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/5252/1.html
The significance of the Hotmail crack. Article by Felix Stalder linking the problems at Hotmail with the Sun purchase of Star Division.
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) Register: Hacking Hotmail Made Easy - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/20/hacking_hotmail_made_easy/
Some bright empiricist from Root-Core has discovered that anyone can log into their Hotmail account and then call messages from any other Hotmail account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number. By Thomas C Greene.
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) Register: MS Passport cracked with Hotmail - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/05/ms_passport_cracked_with_hotmail/
Passport authenticates a user for access to his credit cards and Web site accounts and passwords, to make life easy for on-line merchants and shoppers, and hackers and identity thieves. By Thomas C. Greene.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) Microsoft Passport to Trouble - http://www.znep.com/~marcs/passport/
Describes a security hole by which a hacker can gain access to a user's Passport shopping profile by stealing their Hotmail cookie.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Another Hole in Hotmail - http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/10/1541244
Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved - http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/149245.shtml
News and discussion.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Hotmail Hacked - http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/20/2132207.shtml
This isn't the first time that the folks who are gonna give us a internet wide universal login system had a hole. News and discussion.
301 Listings - DR (4/10)301 Listings - DR (4/10) Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly - http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/30/1324206.shtml
Brief description of issue.
9 Listings - DR (4/10)9 Listings - DR (4/10) HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack - http://www.peacefire.org/security/hmattach/
Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed.

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