Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability

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."

Comments

When will people learn

[lnoble]

that you just can't trust Microsoft with anything remotely sensitive, especially your privacy. They just don't give a shit unless it becomes a problem for their bottom line. Outlook should have taught everyone a lesson about how secure their systems are. And of course, these problems are coming from Microsoft's attempt at tighter integration with outlook.

I don't know whether to be mad at the spammers, or to laugh at the people to actually trust Microsoft with their privacy, or anything for that matter.

Re:I just realized something.....

[RLiegh]

Dude! Thanks for the new sig! :-D

Re:This article is flamebait-ish

[jericho4.0]

Thank you for pointing out all the things wrong with this story. I gotta get me a blog, so I can make shit up and get posted to /.

I don't see the problem

[73939133]

It's easy to script something that submits spam through their web interface; access through WebDAV shouldn't make much of a difference. And I would hardly call that a "vulnerability".