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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack

  http://www.peacefire.org/security/hmattach/
  Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Slashdot: Another Hole in Hotmail

  http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/10/1541244
  Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack.

• Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly

  http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/30/1324206.shtml
  Brief description of issue.

• 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.

• Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved

  http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/149245.shtml
  News and discussion.

• 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.

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