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Oct 6th, 2009, 06:36 AM
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Banned
 Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Planet Earth
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Hackers expose slew of Hotmail acount passwords
Microsoft on Monday 10.5.2009, blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
 Cyber-crooks evidently used "phishing" tactics to dupe users of Microsoft's free Web-based email service into revealing account and access information, according to the US technology giant. "We are aware that some Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were acquired illegally by a phishing scheme and exposed on a website," Microsoft said in response to an AFP inquiry. "We have taken measures to block access to all of the accounts that were exposed and have resources in place to help those users reclaim their accounts." Microsoft said it learned of the problem during the weekend after Hotmail account information of "several thousand" users, many of them reportedly in Europe, was posted at a website. Phishing is an Internet bane and involves using what hackers refer to as "social engineering" to trick people into revealing information online or downloading malicious software onto computers. Phishing tactics include sending people tainted email attachments that promise enticing content such as sexy photos of celebrities and luring people to bogus log-in pages that are convincing replicas of legitimate websites. "This was not a breach of internal Microsoft data," the Redmond, Washington-based technology firm said. "Phishing is an industry-wide problem ... exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments and links from both known and unknown sources, and install and regularly update anti-virus software." Microsoft is also advising Hotmail users to change their account passwords every 90 days. |
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Oct 6th, 2009, 06:52 AM
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Donator
  Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 445
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Yes Hotmail is pretty bad I have stopped to use it over 5 years ago.
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Oct 6th, 2009, 07:06 AM
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Ancient Philosopher
 Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: india
Posts: 916
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me tooo stop it.............
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Oct 6th, 2009, 08:14 AM
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Grown up punk
 Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: India
Posts: 189
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oh its very bad
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Oct 6th, 2009, 01:55 PM
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Grown up punk
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Variable
Age: 21
Posts: 155
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Who Gives a Sh*t Abt Hotmail !!
I use Yahoo..........and Gmail only 
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Oct 7th, 2009, 01:18 PM
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Enlightened One
 Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In Your Hearts
Posts: 2,813
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Gmail is best
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Oct 7th, 2009, 01:23 PM
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Wise Old Person
 Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 449
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me to gmail and yahoo
i have and hotmail id but i never keep anything precious in it.. |
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Oct 7th, 2009, 01:29 PM
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Premium Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: AP, India
Posts: 37,912
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gmail and yahoo are best
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Oct 7th, 2009, 01:31 PM
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GURU
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: VY Canis Majoris
Posts: 1,012
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yes gmail is best...
-::REP if u like my post::-
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