UPDATE: Microsoft has issued a temporary permanent fix for a previously undisclosed bug in its MSN Hotmail Web email service that could have allowed remote attackers to reset account passwords. UPDATE ...

Microsoft on Monday added new security features to its Windows Live Hotmail Web mail service to help users regain control of hijacked accounts. Citing a trend of spammers seizing legitimate accounts, ...

Microsoft has fixed a critical security flaw in its Hotmail login process that made it possible for hackers to take over accounts on the webmail service. The Microsoft security team said in a tweet on ...

$20 could buy any hacked Hotmail account “within a minute” due to a critical password reset and setup flaw in Microsoft Live (Hotmail), and with Microsoft having 350 million unique Hotmail users, you ...

Microsoft has quashed a glaring bug in its Web-based Hotmail email software that allowed Firefox users to easily reset the password another user's Hotmail account, effectively locking them out of ...

Microsoft says it has patched a vulnerability in its Hotmail password reset feature that allowed hackers to access accounts. Microsoft says it has patched a vulnerability in its Hotmail password reset ...

April 26, 3:00PM PDT: Microsoft confims existence of flaw and fix. See update at end of post. Microsoft has deployed a fix for a Hotmail password reset vulnerability that was reportedly being ...

At the public library where I work, a community member from Haiti recently asked me for help recovering his password from his Hotmail account. Apparently his account had been compromised by someone, ...

Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Gov. Sarah Palin‘s e-mail ...