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...

Security-minded programmers are finding holes in Microsoft's Hotmail faster than the free Web-based email service can plug them.

In potentially one of the largest security e-mail breaches ever, a Web site may have allowed people access to millions of private Hotmail accounts.

Security updates made last month to Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, may have failed to fix the problem. Not only that, but privacy watchdogs fear that the fix might actually help the company analyze their users' Web browsing habits. By Michae...

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