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Car Insurer Charges Hotmail Account Holders Higher Rate
Hotmail Insurance Hike Car Insurance. It’s one of those bills that manage to keep the majority of us poor, particularly if, like me, you pay it in one fell swoop. While entering all your information, and being honest to the point of costing you more, while necessary, the price can…
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Hacked Email Account Details Could Be Fake
When it was revealed that over 720 email accounts were being sold online for less than $1, people became concerned as the accounts ranged from Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to those provided by Russian email service Mail.ru. It now would appear that those email account details could be fake. The revelation that…
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Hacker Selling Over 270 Million Compromised Email Accounts
People rely on online emails for everything from business needs to keeping up with their everyday lives. So when it turns out that a hacker is selling 273.3 million email accounts online, people are naturally worried. The millions of accounts were found online by security expert Alex Holden of Hold…
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Three Spammers Accused of Largest Data Breach in History
The US Department of Justice has charged three men with what could be the biggest data breach in the history of the internet. The three spammers are accused of stealing billions of e-mail addresses from the databases of e-mail service providers. Two of the men, Giang Hoang Vu and Viet Quoc Nguyen,…
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Microsoft Update Takes Down Bing and Yahoo
The outages of search engines Bing and Yahoo! Search on Friday night has been attributed to a flawed piece of code uploaded to servers by Microsoft. The bad code also took down live.com, Microsoft’s Hotmail redirect, and Office 365 for a short period. Yahoo’s search facility is now powered by…
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Three Months In Prison for Ex-Microsoft Employee
Alex Kibkalo was arrested for stealing trade secrets from Microsoft and will now be spending the next three months in prison for his crimes. This story has already seen its fair share of debate, especially when you find out how the crime was discovered. Microsoft accessed, somewhat illegally (although that…
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Hacking Victim Offers $20,000 Bounty To Catch His Assailant
Getting hacked sucks, especially when your hackers then demand a ransom from you to not sell the information they obtained by hacking you. That’s exactly what happened to Roger Ver, a millionaire trader with a significant investment in Bitcoins. A hacker going by the name of “Nitrous” hacked into one…
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The NSA Is Collecting Your Email And Messaging Contacts, In Addition To The Messages
We already know the NSA collect electronic data on almost every aspect of people’s life, whether that data collection is justified or even legal is a another debate altogether. The latest revelation from the Washington Post suggests that the they also collect your address books and contact lists in many…
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Outlook Transition Complete, Hotmail Officially Dead
Microsoft’s Hotmail to Outlook transition was announced mid last year. The plan was to roll out Outlook as a refresh of the Hotmail web browser email client. Already having a program based email client called Microsoft Outlook, having Outlook.com made sense for Microsoft as a means providing an update but…
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Microsoft Blames Hotmail and Outlook Outage on Overheating Servers
Tuesday’s outage of Hotmail, SkyDrive and Outlook services cheesed a lot of people off. Microsoft has apologised for the outage already and after a “mini-investigation” Microsoft has discovered that the cause of the outage was overheating at one of its Data-Centres which hosts the key Microsoft services. Microsoft stated that on March the…
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