Hotmail Hole Exposes Subscribers E-mail

[Philipp 6]

Thanks to CestLaVie for this one:

 

A security hole in MSN Hotmail, Microsoft´s Web-based e-mail service, allows any account holder to view other users´ private messages, according to the hacker e-zine Root-Core Network. In a bulletin posted on the outfit´s Web site Saturday, Root-Core members demonstrated how specially crafted uniform resource locators (URLs) could do an end-run around password security on the Hotmail servers

 

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