The significance of the Hotmail crack. Article by Felix Stalder linking the problems at Hotmail with the Sun purchase of Star Division.

News and discussion.

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.

Brief description of issue.

Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack.

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.

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.

Describes a security hole by which a hacker can gain access to a user's Passport shopping profile by stealing their Hotmail cookie.

Explanation of JavaScript in HTML attachments security hole, since fixed.

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.