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Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability

Posted by timothy on from the special-circumstances dept.

chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers discovered a new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and the problem only seems to be getting worse."

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  1. Needless Vulnerability by Narphorium · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me or could this have all been avoided by properly implementing the "evil bit" as mentioned in RFC3514?