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HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack
Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed.
http://www.peacefire.org/security/hmattach/
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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.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.06/
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Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved
News and discussion.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/149245.shtml
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Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly
Brief description of issue.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/30/1324206.shtml
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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.
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=998376822
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Slashdot: Hotmail Hacked
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.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/20/2132207.shtml
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Telepolis: Turning Tides
The significance of the Hotmail crack. Article by Felix Stalder linking the problems at Hotmail with the Sun purchase of Star Division.
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/5252/1.html
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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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1500703.stm
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ZDNet: Huge Hotmail security flaw reported
In potentially one of the largest security e-mail breaches ever, a Web site may have allowed people access to millions of private Hotmail accounts.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515561.html
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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.
http://www.znep.com/~marcs/passport/
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