Engadget - Hotmail's spent the past few years playing catch up with the competition, but for the most part, it hasn't done anything particularly groundbreaking with its services. Earth shattering might not be the appropriate descriptor for its latest addition, but Hotmail's added a helpful new feature to distinguish plain old spam from the kind that comes form a trusted source.
Hackers abused a Microsoft customer support portal that allowed them to read the emails of any non-corporate account.
Microsoft tackles a problem with its email filters that had prevented them from properly screening out spam.
Based on my inbox this morning I have won a contest at every supermarket in the UK. Still at least that explains it...
Popular webmail providers including Gmail and Hotmail are investigating a report that millions of their users' login details are being shared online by a hacker.
