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Hotmail customers are advised to be on the lookout for emails entitled “E-mail account alert!” which notify them that their accounts have been blocked. These messages hide a link which points to a malicious website that urges the potential victim to provide his login credentials. Here’s part of the... |
14 May 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft’s operating systems have been redesigned to fit the need for always-connected devices and services, and the same is planned for the company’s Windows Live offering. The service, announced back in 2005, was meant to provide users with the software and services that would interest them most, and... |
3 May 2012
08:58 GMT |
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The famous Pakistani singer Zaain Ul Abeedin recently found that his Facebook page was taken over by a cybercriminal. Authorities failed to help the celebrity so he turned to ethical hacker Himanshu Sharma, who in less than 24 hours managed to recover the account. This is not the first time when a celebrity’s ... |
1 May 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Security researchers from the Vulnerability Lab identified a critical password reset and setup flaw in Microsoft’s Hotmail service. As it turns out, cybercriminals also found the same weakness and quickly saw a big profit in it, but thanks to experts from the Lab and Microsoft's Security Response Center a ... |
26 April 2012
06:11 GMT |
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In fall last year, Microsoft announced a series of new features and tools aimed at reducing the amount of graymail that Hotmail users have to fight against every day.
Things have advanced greatly in the meantime, and Hotmail users report that they managed to conquer graymail over 100 million times through features... |
22 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Hotmail service is currently down and users cannot sign in into their accounts at the moment. However, Microsoft notes that they are aware of the issue, and that they are working on finding a solution for the outage. “We're aware of sign-in issues - we're investigating and worki... |
15 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Hotmail webmail service is more effective when it comes to blocking spam than rival leading similar services, a recent study has shown. In the past years, Microsoft has been hard at work with upgrading Hotmail so that it would filter spam better than before. Spam that makes it to the inbox has de... |
14 February 2012
08:08 GMT |
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The official Hotmail application for Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now available for download via retailer’s web store, offering fast and easy access to Microsoft’s service.
Microsoft has been focused on making Hotmail work great not only on Windows devices, but also on those that run under other platf... |
25 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Recently, Microsoft announced that there was a new Hotmail available for its users to enjoy, packing great, appealing features.
One of these is the Microsoft SmartScreen, included into the mix in an attempt to make the sorting of newsletters an easier task.
“Since newsletters account for more than a quarte... |
16 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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During the holidays, when people tend to travel more, you can expect an email from one of your friends who desperately needs your help after he's been mugged and left without a dime. In many situations, this means that the friend’s email has been compromised and the hackers are relying on it to send their ... |
23 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Hotmail has got a series of cosmetic changes lately, and users all around the world can now benefit from them.
There are several new features that Microsoft’s customers can enjoy with this release, which means more reasons for users to love Hotmail.
The Redmond-based company is aware of this, and has just p... |
19 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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With a number of more than 150 million active users at the moment, Microsoft Outlook is said to be the most popular email software in the world, which would make it fit to be coupled with another world's largest, namely with Hotmail, currently enjoying more than 350 million active users.
Microsoft has been har... |
17 November 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a collection of new features to Windows Live Hotmail, making it easier for users to manage Newsletters, Deals, and other notifications.
The company already delivered insight into the upgrade, more than a month ago, at the start of October, but Dick Craddock - group program... |
9 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned customers using its web properties, including services associated with Windows Live such as Hotmail, of a new phishing attack designed to steal their sensitive data.
The scam involves a social engineering technique in order to trick users into handing over their account information.
The unsol... |
2 November 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform, is currently arriving on devices with a nice range of features packed inside, one of which is meant to change the way users interact with their email accounts.
In Mango, Hotmail has been built-in, so that users will stay on top of new... |
10 October 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Windows Phone Mango, the latest mobile operating system flavor from Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, has started to roll-out to devices last week, and already arrived on shelves on new mobile phones.
When compared to the previously available version of the operating system, Mango has a wide range of new fe... |
7 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Five new Windows Live Hotmail tools are currently rolling out to users worldwide, a process that will last a few weeks, and power users are bound to be happy with the enhancements.
It’s all about increasing the level of control that customers have over their inbox, to summarize the focus of Hotmail’s... |
4 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made available for download in the Android Market its official Hotmail application for devices powered by Google's mobile operating system.
With the new mobile software, users can easily access their email while on the go, while receiving notification on each of the new messages they receiv... |
4 October 2011
01:44 GMT |
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Microsoft is in the process of migrating hundreds of millions of Windows Live Hotmail users and their accounts to a new storage system delivering better performance, enhanced reliability, superior disaster recovery capabilities and more scalability than before.
Kristof Roomp, an architect in the Hotmail team exp... |
23 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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On September 8th, 2011, a few Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive suffered an outage caused by a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue, according to Arthur de Haan, vice president, Windows Live Test and Service Engineering.
Microsoft became aware of the problem at approximately 8:00 PM PDT and started... |
21 September 2011
05:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has now dealt with issues that caused some Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive to be unavailable. The Redmond company confirmed the Windows Live Hotmail and SkyDrive outage in the late hours of September 8, 2011. According to Microsoft’s Chris Jones, Windows Live customers had been... |
9 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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One of the new features that mobile application developers can take advantage from when designing their software is the ability for users to access Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive from their handsets as long as these run under Android, iOS, or Windows Phone.Redmond-based Microsoft has just announced that a new rele... |
23 July 2011
02:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has added a new security feature to Hotmail which allow users to report accounts that they believe have been hijacked by spammers.According to Microsoft, the idea behind the feature came from the fact that most of the times, the user's friends realize a lot faster that his account was compromised ... |
15 July 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Security experts from Commtouch claim that cyber criminals are increasingly using compromised email accounts in their spam campaigns in order to evade detection.In its Internet Threats Trend Report for July [pdf download], the company claims that spam coming from compromised or rogue accounts, as well as compromised ... |
12 July 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Getting better and faster with age, Windows Live Hotmail has celebrated its 15th birthday at the start of this week. The latest release of Microsoft’s email service is no less than 10 times faster than its predecessor following an update rolled out recently, but is also sporting more features than ever, and th... |
6 July 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has finished rolling up an update to Windows Live Hotmail delivering major performance improvements. In fact, the refresh would qualify more as an upgrade, especially considering that it got Windows Live Hotmail to break the instantaneous speed barrier. Think of the instantaneous speed barrier as the soun... |
1 July 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Attacks similar to those that recently targeted key Gmail users, were also launched against high-profile individuals with Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail accounts.Google recently advised users to enable 2-step authentication in Gmail and take other account security precautions, after detecting a major speak phishing attack ca... |
3 June 2011
13:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Hotmail which was exploited by attackers to extract sensitive information, like emails and contacts, from people's accounts.According to Microsoft's acknowledgements page, the vulnerability was discovered by Yvon Liu, a threat researcher with security vendor Trend Mi... |
24 May 2011
13:55 GMT |
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Facebook seems determined to make its new website comment platform a success and is constantly tweaking it. Now it's rolling out second set of updates, a little over a month after it launched the revamped comments system. Developers now have a chance to customize what shows up in the News Feed when someone comme... |
13 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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A new Windows Live Hotmail contest is designed to award a year’s worth of house cleaning services for the person with the messiest desk. Hotmail Sweep: Messiest Desk Contest is now live on Facebook, and customers need only accounts on the social network and on Hotmail or Live.com, in order to be permitted to p... |
6 April 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Microsoft has fixed the error that prevented Hotmail users in many countries from enabling the always-on HTTPS setting under their accounts.Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the most prominent digital rights watchdogs, revealed that Microsoft no longer allowed users in some countries to opt ... |
28 March 2011
11:03 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that Microsoft has, for some reason, disabled the ability of users in over a dozen countries to enable the always-on HTTPS setting in Hotmail.The option was introduced in November last year and allows Hotmail users to have HTTPS enabled automatically for their entire ses... |
26 March 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft initially introduced Facebook chat in Windows Live Hotmail back in September 2010 when it started rolling out a set of new features, including one that was bridging the email client to the world’s top social network. At that time, the Redmond company had promised that more and more customers would be... |
22 February 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Some rather sweet prizes are up for grabs for people that will enter a new Microsoft sweepstakes dedicated to sharing their love for Windows Live Hotmail through Twitter. In partnership with Mom It Forward, the Redmond company announced the Hotmail Share the Love Twitter Party on Wednesday, February 9th, 6:00-8:00 p... |
7 February 2011
13:31 GMT |
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While Windows Live Hotmail has evolved with a range of new security features, users need to also take an interest in protecting their data and privacy online.
The first step in doing so is making sure that they use a strong password. Here’s an example, it might not be such a good idea to use “passwor... |
29 January 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The inboxes for over 17,000 Windows Live Hotmail users were deleted on December 30th, 2010 and Microsoft is blaming an automated test for the issue, which, ironically enough, was designed to help the company monitor the health of the email service. According to Mike Schackwitz, Windows Live Hotmail team, i... |
7 January 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has resolved an issue reported by users starting with the end of the past year after they logged into their Windows Live Hotmail accounts just to find that all content had been wiped out. According to the Redmond company, this problem impacted only a very limited number of users and was by no means widespre... |
4 January 2011
02:37 GMT |
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The end of 2010 and the start of 2011 brought with it a nasty surprise for some Windows Live Hotmail users that found their inboxes blank. A number of people owning Hotmail accounts started complaining about their messages and customizations having gone missing just a few days ahead of the end of 2010. Microsoft co... |
3 January 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from ESET warn of a phishing campaign targeting Hotmail users, which produces emails signed in the name of a Microsoft program manager.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Alert - Reset your Windows Live password" and appear as if they were sent to a members-services43@live.com address.The message... |
21 December 2010
07:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is ushering in a new stage in the evolution of email, citing similarities with the transition from plain vanilla text to HTML in messages. The company is currently running a limited pilot program designed to test Hotmail Active Views, a new platform designed to enable users to take advantage of rich conte... |
17 December 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Hotmail announced yesterday that it was offering its users the possibility to take advantage of encryption when using the Hotmail free e-mail service.This will be possible once the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) for Hotmail is enabled, which will encrypt your data just like it does when you sign in, via s... |
10 November 2010
07:13 GMT |
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Microsoft will start allowing users to encrypt their Hotmail communications with SSL on an opt-in basis, in order to protect themselves from session hijacking attacks. At the end of September, Microsoft enhanced the security of Hotmail accounts by allowing users to associate trusted computers and mobile phone number... |
5 November 2010
06:09 GMT |
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With Windows Live Hotmail having evolved to Wave 4 this summer, Microsoft continues to invest in the service, adding new features, the latest of which is designed to attract users of rival mail providers by offering them the possibility to keep their current account, which enjoying all the benefits of Hotmail. At th... |
2 November 2010
08:30 GMT |
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A new contest from Microsoft designed to celebrate the recent launch of Windows Live 2011, asks users to come up with inventions designed to save time.As the name implies, Hotmail's Ultimate Timesaver Competition is focused on the Hotmail component of Windows Live Wave 4, and if anything, the £10,000 gran... |
13 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Microsoft should launch the final version of “Wave 4″ of its Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite of Windows add-ons, later today.There are already several websites that announced the download will be available around 1pm ET, and things might actually turn out this way.The Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite... |
30 September 2010
11:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced new features to Hotmail to make it easier for users to regain control of compromised accounts and prevent attackers from hijacking them in the first place.Email addresses are one of the most critical accounts Internet user have, especially since most people don't delete messages containi... |
28 September 2010
04:26 GMT |
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The user is at the center of the Windows Live team’s concern and their goal is to keep building exciting new experiences as well as teaming up with the right partners, for the customers’ satisfaction. Today, the Windows Live team announces its newest partner – LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over 75 million... |
23 September 2010
15:55 GMT |
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Today, the Windows Live team made an announcement through the Inside Windows Live blog: they have launched an update to Hotmail, which includes Facebook Chat integration, nested folders, additional Active View partners and much more.A few months prior to this, the Windows Live team launched a Windows Live Hotmail wit... |
23 September 2010
15:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to provide a fix to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 issues reported by customers by the end of this week. The Redmond company did not offer a specific deadline related to the availability of a hotfix designed to resolve problems associated with the latest iteration of its email service, but the c... |
12 August 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Users that are experiencing problems with the new iteration of Windows Live Hotmail will need to first make sure that they are running a browser which is supported by the email client. According to the Redmond company, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 is designed to play nice with a range of browsers, but the latest itera... |
11 August 2010
07:46 GMT |
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