A look at stolen Hotmail data finds simple passwords
1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail.
1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail.
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.
The hacker who stole confidential Twitter documents used a feature of Microsoft's Hotmail to hijack an employee's work email account, the site that has published some of the Twitter documents said Sunday.
Microsoft has stopped offering its Windows Live Messenger service to users in five countries that are subject to U.S. sanctions, the company confirmed Friday.
Yahoo Mail isn't the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else's account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Sarah Palin's e-mail last week.
A new bot can crack defences erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said on Friday.
I was out at lunch the other day with an avid Blackberry user. He was showing off his new Curve, as gadget people are wont to do. He was clearly pretty chuffed with it, but then started to have the odd gripe, such as about how unintuitive some of the functions were (from memory, Mute was one of these).
Executive suggests email that doesn't use Sender ID is junk
Hotmail users have been hit with a new sanction against overusing the free service, in a development that at least one local software seller sees as spelling the decline of free email and an opening of the market to more competition.
“It could have been one of 50 different things"
“The internet let loose creative juices”
Hotmail's junk mail filter allows users to set level of filtering
Microsoft has announced it has upgraded its Hotmail service. Users of the free web-based email service will see a "cleaner and simpler user interface" which includes new tools for dealing with spam.