" Stephen Michael Cohen, the man who operated the porn site for the past five years, is now asking a judge to suspend a transfer of the domain back to Gary Kremen, the San Francisco entrepreneur who first registered the site more than six years ago." ...

"For a company just a few weeks old, Verizon Wireless sure doesn't take criticism very well." [Wired]

To correct serious security flaws, Microsoft on Friday disabled the virtual wallet function of its Passport service and has begun notifying partners about the vulnerabilities, the company has confirmed. By Brian McWilliams.

A previously unknown group known as Hackers Unite has claimed responsibility for publicizing Hotmail's security breach, which Microsoft vehemently denied was the result of a backdoor oversight. By James Glave.

No sooner was one catastrophic security flaw closed Monday -- one that exposed millions of Hotmail accounts to prying eyes -- when another one appeared. By Declan McCullagh and Ja.

A Danish government official has reported a security hole that could allow unauthorized access to private accounts on Hotmail, the free Web email service. The company confirmed the hole exists and said Friday it would patch it within a day. By Michael...

As outages and service problems continue to plague Microsoft's free email service Hotmail, users who try to cancel their accounts may be in for a surprise: They can't. By Polly Sprenger.

Microsoft has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Hotmail email program that tricks users into sending their usernames and passwords to an outside email address. By Michael Stutz.

The Hotmail security hole may have been an intentional backdoor that Microsoft built into its system for maintenance purposes, security experts said. By James Glave.

Tom Cervenka, a Web programmer at Canadian Specialty Installations, spent last week working on some clever coding to send to his Hotmail account. It tells users account access has been timed out and that they need to re-enter their account and passwor...