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● 01.20.10

●● “Technet.microsoft.com Hacked”

Posted in Mail, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 4:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: More security breaches in Microsoft’s own back yard; Hotmail abandonment further advocated

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echnet.microsoft.com hacked,” says a reader to us via E-mail, but he probably means “cracked”. According to the screenshots presented here, it is akin to defacing and it sure looks embarrassing for a company which claims to produce the “most secure” everything.

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Rogue on-line pharmacy sites, claiming to sell legitimate medicine to naive shoppers, continue to be a problem. This quick note is about one approach used to insert advertisements into forum discussions that completely cover up the legitimate discussion page.

This is a normal type of event. There are many other examples of Microsoft sites getting cracked, more times than one can conveniently list here. The same goes for Apple. By contract, Google’s main site never suffered a security breach (none that people are aware of) and the same goes for Red Hat, unlike Fedora.

Another service of Microsoft which falls victim to crackers on a regular basis would be Hotmail (Gmail accounts were accessed illegally due to Windows malware, even this month [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]). Hotmail failures are a very broad subject that we’ve covered in, e.g.:

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Why Microsoft Doomed Exchange… and E-mail TooMicrosoft Hotmail Information Leaked, Intellectual Monopolies Now Applied to UK Post CodesHas Microsoft Fired Its CIO Because Hotmail Secretly Runs on Free Software?Hotmail and Gmail Data Breach Potentially Due to Windows Trojan

Here is a new essay giving 10 reasons not to use Hotmail. This may be handy for those whose friends, colleagues or family members are still stuck with Microsoft’s Hotmail.

=> ↺ a new essay giving 10 reasons not to use Hotmail

10 reasons why not to use HotmailDid you ever try to explain to a friend why he or she shouldn’t use Hotmail? There are many good reasons to avoid Microsoft’s services, but these reasons are not so easy to explain in a clear and unambiguous way.

People who care about the security of their E-mail would trust Microsoft for nothing. █

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so irritating.”

–Bill Gates

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