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Hotmail accounts were recently targeted by an attacking against a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Webmail system. The attack is more insidious than some because it executes without user intervention when a malicious email is opened.

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that lets you create and maintain multiple phony Hotmail addresses from your main Hotmail account.

Hot on the heels of what was possibly the first major cloud data leak a few weeks ago, as the new year got underway Microsoft followed up by appearing to wipe the e-mails of a significant number of Hotmail users.

Microsoft on Monday added new security features to its Windows Live Hotmail Web mail service to help users regain control of hijacked accounts.

Hotmail and innovation: Those two words haven't been used in the same sentence for years. But when Microsoft launches an update to the online mail service (officially known as Windows Live Hotmail) sometime this summer, it'll include some features that are genuinely innovative, well-thought-out and useful.

Scammers have grabbed the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Web and are using them in a plot involving a fake Chinese electronics seller to bilk users out of cash and credit card information, a security researcher said today.

Microsoft on Thursday scrambled to fix a global outage that hit its Windows Live Hotmail service for several hours.

Without warning, Microsoft upgraded my Hotmail account. The new version is practically unusable. I want to revert to the "classic" version, but can't find out how. I've faxed Bill Gates and other executives, but have never gotten any answer. If I can't use Hotmail, I'd like to update all my emails to my NetZero account, but know how to do that.

A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply while spam originating from Yahoo and Hotmail remained flat or dipped slightly. Experts say this huge rise in spam is thanks to the cracking of Google’s CAPTCHA system.