Sites and press coverage related to Hotmail security holes.
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- CNET News.com: Hotmail plugs security hole 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 Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them.
- HotMail JavaScript-in-Attachment Attack Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed.
- 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.
- Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved News and discussion.
- Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly Brief description of issue.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Register: 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.
- Register: 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.
- CNet: Cookies cap Hotmail security hole Hotmail said it will mandate the use of cookies to plug a newly discovered security hole.
- CNET News.com: Hotmail bug fix not a cure-all Microsoft's free Web-based email service Hotmail last night implemented a partial fix for a JavaScript security problem.
- Slashdot: Another Hole in Hotmail Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack.