Hotmail at Risk to Cookie Thieves

[The Tool]

MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited.

The trick involves capturing a copy of the victim's browser cookies file. Once the perpetrator gains two key Hotmail cookies, there's no way to lock him out because at Hotmail, cookies trump even passwords.

Read more at: http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,52115,00.html

[chrisranjana]

Why even though a bigger corporation is driving hotmail we hear lots of errors and security problems in hotmail than yahoo ?

[Protocol Droid]

try:
www.myrealbox.com
its very good.

I still use hotmail for one of my mailing lists, but I'm thinking of changing it now.