A Guide to Search Results for "Hot Mail"
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"Hotmail" is the registered trademark of a Web-based e-mail service that was acquired
by Microsoft in 1997 for $400 million. With over 110 million users of its free basic service,
Hotmail is the undisputed leader of Web-based e-mail providers. However, the service has
been plagued by some well-earned bad press because of a seemingly never-ending series of
problems with security holes, privacy violations, and lost data. Some of these problems have
arisen because Microsoft is a frequent target of hackers, but most of them have arisen because
of Microsoft's deliberate indifference to the wants and needs of its end users.
Are you
looking for the official "Hotmail" Web site?
Are you
looking for second- and third-party overviews and reviews of "Hotmail"?
Are you looking for news and
information about the security risks and various other problems encountered by users of "Hotmail"?
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Security-Hotmail.com
An overview of the various security risks associated with Hotmail.
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Sophos
- Virus info: Hotmail hoax
Describes a Hotmail hoax involving a chain letter solicitation.
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Wired News - Hotmail at Risk to Cookie Thieves
2:00 a.m. April 26, 2002 PDT
By Brian McWilliams
An overview of the security risks arising from Hotmail's use of
cookies to authenticate users.
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Wired
News - Hotel Hotmail
3:00 a.m. Mar. 22, 1999 PST
by Polly Sprenger
An overview
of problems encountered by users who are unable to close their free Hotmail accounts.
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MSNBC.com
- Technology & Science - Who’s spying on my Hotmail?
August 28, 2002
By Bob
Sullivan
An overview of spyware that can be used to spy on Web-based e-mail.
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The
Register - Spyware Trojan sends Hotmail to your boss
30/08/2002 10:45 GMT
By Thomas C. Greene in Washington
An overview of
eBlaster's spyware.
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Peacefire.org - HotMail JavaScript-in-attachment attack
Describes a
security hole in Hotmail that allowed an intruder to break into someone's Hotmail account by
sending that person an email message with an attached HTML file. Hotmail has since closed this
security hole.
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Peacefire.org - HotMail Sharing Member Email Addresses
An investigation into Hotmail policies and practices reveals the fact that Hotmail allowed a collection of e-mail addresses to be posted on another Web site where they could be harvested by third parties. After the report was released, Hotmail changed its practices.
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Eastside
Journal - 'Soft Talk: New Hotmail settings might share your info, addresses
2002-05-14
by Cydney Gillis
An accusation made against Microsoft that it surreptitiously violated the
privacy of Hotmail users.
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Internetnews.com
- Hotmail Embroiled in Moussaoui Case
August 30, 2002
By Thor
Olavsrud
Questions fly concerning a missing e-mail account that may or may not have
existed.
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Salon.com
Technology | The trouble with Hotmail
August 21, 2001
By Damien Cave
Microsoft
can't seem to get its free e-mail act together. So what does that mean for the company's plans
for total Net domination?
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Salon
Technology | Holey Hotmail
Sept. 1, 1999
By Scott Rosenberg
If the biggest free
e-mail service can't keep our mail private, forget about moving all our data onto the
Web.
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BBC News
| SCI/TECH | Hotmail hole exposes e-mails
Monday, 20 August, 2001, 12:35 GMT 13:35 UK
By
BBC News Online's Alfred Hermida
Hackers have exposed a security flaw which allows you to
read other people's e-mails in Hotmail.
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Slashdot
| Hotmail Hacked
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 20, @05:29PM
Commentary on
the Hotmail security hole that allowed hackers to access specific messages in other users'
e-mail accounts.
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Slashdot
| Hotmail Cracked Badly
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 30, @08:23AM
Commentary on
the Hotmail security hole that allowed hackers to set up Web sites that provided unrestricted
access to other users' accounts.
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Solaris
calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft
A reprint of an article published in VNU Business
Publications Ltd. on April 22, 1998.
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CNN
- Status of Hotmail privacy unclear
August 30, 1999
By Robin Lloyd, CNN Interactive
Senior Writer
A narrative of a cat and mouse game between hackers and Hotmail
managers.
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CNET.com - Tech News - Hotmail uses controversial filter to fight spam
November 9, 1999, 1:05 PM PT
By Paul Festa, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
A controversial antispam tool has acquired legitimacy with the addition of a new subscriber: Hotmail, the 800-pound gorilla of Web-based email.
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ZDNET News: Huge Hotmail security flaw reported
August 29, 1999, 5:00 PM PT
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.
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USA
Today - Expert hacks Hotmail in 1 line of code
08/30/2001 - Updated 10:16 AM ET
By
Byron Acohido, USA Today
An internal security check alerted Microsoft to security holes
that needed to be patched before a malicious hacker could exploit them.
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