Tag: hotmail
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VB data supports Google’s claim to having reduced compromised accounts
Internet giant may indeed do something right; Yahoo! has a real problem. Internet giant Google claims that a ‘complex risk analysis’ using ‘more than 120 variables’ has reduced the number of compromised accounts on its system by 99.7% since 2011. VB ‘s data suggests that this could indeed be the case. It is usually good…
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‘Hotmail and Gmail have best spam filter’ says Cascade spam test
Comparative test did not take false positives into account. Researchers from Cascade Insights performed a comparative spam filtering test on the three major webmail providers and concluded that Hotmail performed best, shortly followed by Gmail , with Yahoo! a distant third. The researchers registered accounts at all three providers and, for comparison, a fourth one…
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Hotmail beefs up security with stricter password policy
‘My friend has been spammed’ button also welcomed by experts. Microsoft ‘s free webmail service Hotmail has introduced some new features which should make it less likely for its users’ accounts to be hacked, and which also enable users to tell the company when a friend’s account has been hacked. One of the new features…
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Microsoft sues alleged spammer for gaming Hotmail’s spam filter
Messages marked as ‘not spam’ from phony web mail accounts. Connecticut spammer Boris Mizhen and several companies controlled by him have been sued by Microsoft for sending unwanted email to its customers and for gaming spam filters. Mizhen has a long history as a spammer. For years he was listed in Spamhaus ‘s ROKSO list…
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Webmail data leak hype deflated
Rumoured phishing explosion grabs headlines, reality much more mundane. This week has seen some major news organisations picking up on the story of tens of thousands of sets of webmail access data appearing online, with rumours of a major and highly effective phishing campaign – possibly targeting children – rife across the web. As the…