Outlook.com and Hotmail block all state govt email after hijacked account sends 8 million spam messages
Oregon state's email domain reputation took a nose dive after an employee clicked on a phishing link.
Oregon state's email domain reputation took a nose dive after an employee clicked on a phishing link.
In case you missed it, last week's "Hashtag of the Week" was #fappening. It was a response to the hacking or leaking of hundreds of nude pictures of a number of nude celebrities. Early in the piece it was alleged that Apple's iCloud service had been hacked but the reality is far more complex.
Anthony Caruana | 09 Sep | Read more
Microsoft has released its first report detailing its compliance with law enforcement user data requests across several consumer services, including Skype.
Microsoft on Tuesday began offering users the option to secure their Hotmail sessions with HTTPS data encryption.
Nancy Gohring | 10 Nov | Read more
One of the 34 bugs Microsoft patched on Tuesday is more serious than it first appeared.
Robert McMillan | 14 Oct | Read more
1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail.
Robert McMillan | 07 Oct | Read more
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.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Oct | Read more
Spammers have cracked Microsoft's latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a central server, a security company has reported.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Feb | Read more