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Biggest credential cache amassed by a single individual to dateThis week, an anonymous young Russian hacker calling himself “the Collector” just handed over roughly 232 million unique email account credentials and passwords on a social media forum, with a total cache of 1.17 billion records. The hacker claims he only wanted 50 rubles – approximately 75 cents – for all of the information, but ended up simply exchanging them for “likes” on his social media page and some favorable comments about him in hacker forums, according to cyber security experts.The obtained credential information breaks down as follows – over 57...

UPDATE: Why Govt. Source leaked PRISMAdditional information is being reported that confirms what most of us have always suspected. NSA is collecting all our email data, tracking our movements, our photographs, our documents, etc. Also factor in the fact that a court recently ruled that Obama is free to collect our DNA without being found guilty of any crime. National Security Agency (NSA) building designed for massive data collection in Utah:WaPo reports the following:The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection...

Hotmail addresses may live on, but the service we once knew as Hotmail is no more, now that Microsoft has transferred all 300 million active Hotmail accounts to its new, modernized Outlook.com webmail offering. "We want to give a huge 'Thank you' to all of you who have supported Hotmail over the years, for some of you, that's going back as far as 1996," Microsoft's Dick Craddock eulogized in a blog post on Thursday. "It has been an amazing journey and we've been honored to provide you with a great mail experience for many years." Redmond first began signing up...

Are you a Hotmail user? Microsoft announced a new email service that will replace Hotmail, a product that boasts 325 million customers. Further, the company hopes to woo new users away from Gmail, which is now the most popular email service. Microsoft named the new product Outlook, after its existing email for business users. That’s right, the one you’ve probably been using at the office. “There was a perception gap with Hotmail from tech enthusiasts and youth,” Windows Live general manager Brian Hall told VentureBeat, a highly regarded tech website. “Many of them wouldn’t take a second look at Hotmail...

Help. I use Hotmail for my email and cannot get into my email box. Is this happening to anyone else? I keep getting the message regarding "Certificate Error." I have gone to the Tools window, and Advanced tab, and changed all back to the default settings. I have restarted my computer. I still cannot get to my email and still get the certificate error message. This happens when I use either Internet Explorer, or Firefox. Any suggestions? Ugh!

I am very curious about one thing. For the last two days, I have been receiving the same message (“personalised” spam) from all my clients who own a Hotmail account (clients I didn’t hear about for years). I am familiar with email account hacking but there is something I don’t get: all my “hotmail” clients, at the same time, with the same message? Doesn't compute for me... Is it on me end? Thanks

Is anyone else having issues with Hotmail tonight? I have had problems logging on for about 3 hours. I didn't know if this was isolated to me or if there is a general problem.

Help! I went to sign in to my Hotmail account and I got a message that it was blocked because it was sending out spam emails. Then it asked from my mobile phone number to send me a code. I did that but no code sent. I tried other methods to unblock my hotmail via web research but each method requires me to sign in to MSN which is blocked to me.Phone support is not available to me since I don't have a paid account. Okay, so how do I regain access to my blocked hotmail account without having to...

Anyone else having problems accessing Hotmail during the last day of so? I can get to my inbox, but that's about it. I can't open, delete, or move my emails, nor can I get into any other folders.

Am I logged in?

Can't log on to Hotmail. Really can't. Anyone else having this kind of trouble?

About two weeks ago, it seems after a windows update, my internet download speed slowed to a crawl. Speakeasy speed tests show me only in the 100-150 kbs download speed range although upload speeds are generally 2000-3000 kbs - high-speed cable connection. When I'm not on the web, just doing spreadsheet work or disk burning, for example, I'm fine but web browsing is like purgatory. I've tried everything I can think of including going back and forth between IE 6 and IE 7, reformating and reloading my hard drive, deleting and repeating windows updates, but nothing seems to work. My...

Anyone having problems signing into hotmail? When I try to sign in, it redirects me to another page asking me to sign into Microsoft Live, then keeps returing to the MS Live signin screen.

Summary: Microsoft are disabling WebDAV access to all hotmail.com accounts. This means Hotmail Pop Links and Outlook Express access to hotmail.com accounts will stop working at the end of June 2008. {snip} ...Microsoft have changed to using a new protocol. Rather than offering an open and standard protocol such as POP or IMAP, they’re using a new one they call DeltaSync for their live.com and new hotmail.com accounts. This protocol is not an open or standardised protocol. It’s a Microsoft proprietary one and only works with their Windows Live Mail, Vista Mail and Outlook Office Outlook Connector.

I've been using the Windows Live Mail Beta for about a week now. Today, I've been trying for a couple hours but cannot login. The response is, "Server Too Busy -- We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time." Mrs. Newgeezer, at home, is able to login to her Hotmail account. So, I figure it's either a problem affecting only certain Hotmail servers OR it's something at my work location.

I've noticed a trend with my hotmail account that I get all my "junk" emails sent to. You know the kind of account that you use to sign up for free stuff and the like. Well in Hotmail you have a junk mail folder where the worthless stuff goes. I am signed up to receive emails from both parties, Republican and democrat. Guess which one goes directly to the junk folder and which one goes to the inbox? Just wondering if that is the case for any other user?

Syrian authorities have shut down numerous internet sites in recent days including the Hotmail portal. Among those in the firing line - for publishing news and messages that contrast with the Damascus regime or could be "dangerous" for citizens - is the Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, which has taken an openly critical stance towards Hezbollah and various states in the region including Syria. Another critical daily, al-Shaffaf, has also had its online version rendered inaccessible. The hotmail portal was already shut down by the Syrian authorities in 2000 but then rehabilitated four years later. The official motivation for the latest...

Patriotic American users of Microsoft's Hotmail service may be surprised when trying to obtain an email address. The company does not allow new users to sign up for a user name containing the word "american."At first glance, it seemed that Hotmail is taking precaution to limit phishing attempts which often rely on official-sounding addresses to trick recipients into paying money to people posing as governmental entities. However, my quick check showed that names with "canadian," "francais," "german," "australian," "english," and "deutsch," are all allowed. User names with "america" are permitted, however. Names with "british," are not.It seems that American...

I apologize for the vanity posting. I also apologize if this is already widely known. I just got done trying to create an E-Mail address on Microsoft's free "Hotmail" e-mail service. Before creating an e-mail address/user name, one is allowed to check and see if the address one would like to use is already taken. I tried several different addresses which contained various Conservative words, such as "loyal-patriot@hotmail.com", to see if they already existed. These were accepted by Hotmail with no problem. However, when I tried to use the word "American" as a part of an e-mail address, I received...

The pesky Sober worm is to blame for disrupting e-mail traffic between Comcast account holders and users of Microsoft-based e-mail, Redmond said on Friday. A variant of Sober known as Win32/Sober.Z@mm is pummeling servers at Hotmail and MSN with "unusually high mail load," causing delays in e-mail delivery to Hotmail and MSN customers, said Brooke Richardson, MSN's lead product manager. Richardson also indicated that Internet service providers besides Comcast may be having problems directing e-mail to Hotmail and MSN servers. "We are working with Comcast and other ISPs to address (the) issues," Richardson said. "We're actively working to take the...