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• Microsoft's Hotmail, Office365 suffer outage (updated)

  Australian businesses and users have been unable to access Office365 Cloud services or Hotmail email due to a worldwide outage. MSN.com and Live@edu accounts have also been affected.

• Hotmail gets secure HTTPS option

  Microsoft on Tuesday began offering users the option to secure their Hotmail sessions with HTTPS data encryption.

• Hotmail suffers hours-long outage on Thursday

  A technical problem has kept an undetermined number of Windows Live Hotmail users locked out of their e-mail accounts for hours on Thursday.

• Microsoft touts Hotmail security adds; users complain of account hacks

  Microsoft will beef up security in the revamped Windows Live Hotmail, including tying a user's account to a specific PC, a company executive said today.

• In Pictures: Microsoft Revamps Hotmail With New Tools

  Microsoft will roll out enhancements to its Hotmail Web mail service later this year, with an aim to reduce clutter and make it easier to send photos and handle Office documents. Here is a visual tour of Windows Live Hotmail's new look and features.

• Microsoft rolls out Hotmail enhancements

  Microsoft is set to begin rolling out the latest enhancements to its Hotmail Web mail service, with an aim to reduce clutter and make it easier to send photos and handle Office documents.

• New Aussie Hotmail addresses up for grabs

  Windows Live Hotmail has launched a new local domain, boosting the availability of email address options.

• MS changes tune, says attackers are exploiting new bug

  One of the 34 bugs Microsoft patched on Tuesday is more serious than it first appeared.

• Expert provides more proof hackers hijacked Hotmail accounts

  It's almost certain that hackers obtained the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Internet through a botnet-based attack, a researcher said today as she provided more proof that Microsoft's explanation was probably off-base.

• Researcher refutes Microsoft's account of hijacked Hotmail passwords

  One researcher isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack.

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  Compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in fake shopping scam

  In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards.

• A look at stolen Hotmail data finds simple passwords

  1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail.

• Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed

  Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.

• Microsoft confirms phishers stole 'several thousand' Hotmail passwords

  Microsoft today confirmed that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account usernames and passwords had leaked to the Internet, but said the credentials were "likely" stolen in a phishing attack.

• Hotmail users angry over pulled photo feature

  Windows Live Hotmail users have been venting their frustration at Microsoft Corp. for the past month since the software maker suddenly removed a popular feature because it created a security hole.