 | BBC: Hotmail Hole Exposes E-mails
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. (August 20, 2001) |
 | BetaNews: Hotmail Flaw Raises Questions Over XP Security
Late Sunday night, Root Core, a group of computer security experts, published information exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft's popular service. (August 21, 2001) |
 | CNET News.com: Hotmail bug fix not a cure-all
The "fix" wasn't as comprehensive as Hotmail intended. (August, 1998) |
 | CNET News.com: Hotmail plugs security hole
Microsoft's Hotmail today claimed victory over the security holes that have put the free email firm on the hot seat this week. (August 27, 1998) |
 | CNET News.com: New security glitch for Hotmail
Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them. (August 31, 1998) |
 | CNet: Cookies cap Hotmail security hole
Hotmail said it will mandate the use of cookies to plug a newly discovered security hole. (March 19, 1999) |
 | CNN: Status of Hotmail privacy unclear
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. (August 30, 1999) |
 | HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack
Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed. (October 5, 2000) |
 | Microsoft Passport to Trouble
Describes a security hole by which a hacker can gain access to a user's Passport shopping profile by stealing their Hotmail cookie. |
 | Register: 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. (November 5, 2001) |
